The Seed Enterprise Investment Scheme (SEIS) has assisted over 1,100 startups by giving them access to investment to help them grow and expand since it was launched last year, the UK Government has announced.
Since 2012, companies have raised over £82m ($130m) through the scheme, which offers individual investors buying shares in startups at early stage tax relief on their investments. This equates to an average £1.3m of SEIS funding raised by 19 companies every week through the scheme, with…
Japan's sophisticated network of university investment funds make it an outlier among other Asian countries.
The universities of Durham, Newcastle, Northumbria, Sunderland and Teesside are the latest group of academic institutions in the UK to launch a fund to invest in their spinouts.
While universities often push their academics to be more entrepreneurial, having a professor lead a spinout decreases its chances of raising money and being acquired, according to research by Harvard associate professor Maria Roche.
Global University Venturing (GUV) is where tech transfer, academic and investment experts meet to explore the latest ideas and technologies driving innovation forward. We drive the discussions and share best practices that are critical to the success of spinouts, scaleouts and innovation programmes. Our aim is to help improve the processes of bringing innovations from academia to global markets and facilitate their integration into the broader business ecosystem.
