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Spinout investor Kurma Partners raises $154m for biotech fund

The European venture capital firm aims to raise a total €250m for its fourth fund by next year.

Oct 4, 2024

Ian McClure to oversee innovation at University of Kentucky's hospitals and clinics

Ian McClure is expanding his role from associate vice president for research, innovation and economic impact at the University of Kentucky to include vice president of innovation for UK Healthcare, the institution's health system.

Sep 23, 2024

Shariv heads University Medical Center Göttingen’s new tech transfer office

The technology transfer veteran has been made head of the German teaching hospital's new technology transfer office.

Jul 24, 2024

Domingo joins Spanish genome lab to create spinouts

Centro National de Análisis Genómico was the first national sequencing centre in Europe.

Jun 28, 2024

UK VC firm EMV Capital takes over Cambridge seed investor Martlet Capital

EMV Capital will manage a portfolio of 53 deep tech and life sciences companies as part of the acquisition.

May 13, 2024

University of California's Bow Capital appoints Chan as CFO

James Chan, who holds a similar position at other funds, has joined the investment firm affiliated with the University of California.

Apr 23, 2024

Crumbling system, fragile lives: can spinouts help in the senior care crisis?

From a chest-worn device to help with Parkinson's symptoms to stress measuring socks — here are the spinouts providing support for senior citizens.

Mar 25, 2024

How Basel supercharged its spinout rate

Basel has quietly built a life sciences ecosystem that’s becoming hard to ignore.

Feb 27, 2024

Other News

Age is just a number: 10 spinouts trying to cheat death

What if living to 100 was the norm rather than the exception for humans? Here are 10 companies using university research to make it happen.

Feb 4, 2024

GV makes another bet on CRISPR with Moonwalk investment

GV backs another spinout by MIT’s serial entrepreneur Feng Zhang as epigenetics becomes an emerging area of healthcare.

Jan 11, 2024

Resistance is futile: seven superconductor companies that want to change the world

From healthcare to fusion to quantum computing to space, superconductors have the potential to revolutionise the world. And the technology is finally ready to commercialise.

Nov 6, 2023

Founders: here's how to get your product into the NHS

Startups often find the UK's National Health Service hard to sell into. These three tips can stop founders falling at the first hurdle.

Oct 16, 2023

Race to find (and fund) the new diabetes spinouts

From needleless wearables that monitor glucose to thermal imaging that prevents amputations, spinouts are improving care for a disease that affects 550m people.

Aug 17, 2023

No more uncomfortable trips to the bathroom: how ProVerum tackles BPH

ProVerum, spun out of Trinity College Dublin, has developed a treatment for benign prostatic hyperplasia, a common condition affecting men over 50.

Jun 14, 2023

Editor's Picks

Sony and Intel back company making key part for next wave of…

UK smartphone camera component developer Cambridge Mechatronics’ latest round featured strategic investors Sony Ventures and Intel Capital.

Feb 13, 2024

GV names four new general partners

Brendan Bulik-Sullivan, Crystal Huang, Frédérique Dame and Issi Rozen have been promoted from partner positions at the early-stage Alphabet fund.

Jun 6, 2023

Wayra Brasil and Vivo Ventures name new investment leads

Wana Schulze and Ivan Yoon will lead CVC investments at Telefónica’s seed and early-stage Brazilian subsidiaries.

May 29, 2023
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