
Rice University has found its inaugural vice-president for innovation in Paul Cherukuri, currently executive director of its Institute of Biosciences and Bioengineering.
These are the spinouts that caught our eye over the past month. Here's why they should be on your radar, too.
Launched just a year ago to build on work at Weill Cornell Medicine and New York-Presbyterian Hospital, Cleerly has now closed an oversubscribed series C round.
Mary Albertson is the new director for Georgia Tech’s Office of Technology Licensing, joining from University of Utah’s Pivot Center.
The new Berkeley Frontier Fund reinvents the venture capital model by building in donations to University of California, Berkeley.
Bin Yan will become associate vice-president for research and director of the Office of Technology Management in September.
UT Southwestern Medical Center spinout ReCode Therapeutics has now raised a total of $200m in its series B round from investors including Osage University Partners.
University of Washington spinout Zap Energy is working on building a cheap, scalable fusion reactor generating low cost and carbon free energy.
Regis Kelly, executive director of University of California’s QB3 is retiring after more than 50 years with the institution.
Osage University Partners has added MicroTransponder to a small but mightly portfolio of medical device companies.
The embattled commercialisation firm reduced losses by nearly $40m but now has only one board member left in interim chairman Bruce Failing.
Orphan CNS therapy developer Minoryx Therapeutics closed a $54.8m series C and MIT's The Engine co-led a $10.5m seed round for Foundation Alloy.
The Global University Venturing deal net rounds up the smaller investments from across the university innovation ecosystem.
The Global University Venturing deal net rounds up the smaller investments from across the university innovation ecosystem.
The Japanese medical equipment maker is looking for more medtech startups working on minimally invasive technologies.
Suraj Patel has left VC firm Bow Capital after six years and will head the data software group’s corporate venturing arm, MongoDB Ventures.
The security awareness group’s CVC unit will focus on the human layer of cybersecurity.
The Saudi Aramco unit has hired Sean Lee after adding fellow corporate venturers Daisy Garcia and Abhishek Shukla to the team in recent weeks.