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Ohio State puts Sanjay Krishna in charge of innovation
Sanjay Krishna has been named senior associate vice president for innovation and strategic ventures at the Ohio State University.
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University of Sydney hatches plan for venture fund
The university already runs an A$25 preseed fund but is now exploring a much larger investment vehicle for its spinouts.
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QUT promotes Kate Taylor to top commercialisation job
Kate Taylor has been appointed acting chief commercialisation and development officer at the Queensland University of Technology.
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SNU Technology Holdings raises ₩5.1bn fund
Seoul National University Technology Holdings has raised a new fund that it will co-manage with accelerator Seoul Frontier Investment.
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Indiana University’s IU Inc. finds leader in David Rosenberg
Indiana University has created IU Inc. to engage with partners more effectively, and David Rosenberg will serve as the inaugural president and CEO.
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University of Lincoln hires Michele Barbour to oversee commercialisation
Michele Barbour will become the pro vice chancellor for research and commercialisation at the University of Lincoln in the autumn.
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Spinout Inspire Fund formally launches with £22.5m
The fund, which has been quietly investing for four months, has publicly launched with £22.5 million in capital.
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Meredith Meyer Grelli takes on new entrepreneurship role at Carnegie Mellon
Meredith Meyer Grelli has been named inaugural vice provost for entrepreneurship and associate vice president at Carnegie Mellon University.
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Midlands Mindforge secures £30m, begins investing
The firm, created by eight universities in 2023, has made its first investments as it continues fundraising towards its £250 million goal.
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Trinity College Dublin promotes Vincent Coole to director of innovation
Vincent Coole has been promoted to manage Trinity Innovation.
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Creator Fund closes $56m fund
Eight months after launching its latest fund with an initial $41 million, Creator Fund has closed the vehicle thanks to support from KfW Capital.
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Berkeley gains Darkmatter Lab for frontier tech
Darkmatter Lab will serve as a cornerstone initiative for a venture fund set to be established by Hivemind Capital.
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Purdue’s agtech studio Dial Ventures achieves first close for Fund II
Purdue University’s agtech venture studio Dial Ventures has achieved a first close of Fund II, which it will use to build the next batch of startups.
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RGU promotes Chris Moule to director of research, innovation and enterprise
Chris Moule has worked at Robert Gordon University since 2010 and has been head of innovation and entrepreneurship for the last eight years.
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Samuel Kim becomes permanent CIO at Texas A&M University
Samuel Kim was named interim chief innovation officer in October last year and has now been appointed permanently.
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Craig Simmons takes on innovation role at the University of Newcastle
Craig Simmons has been promoted to deputy vice chancellor of research and innovation at the University of Newcastle.
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Caltech adds $10m to rebranded Gates Investment Fund
The money for the vehicle formerly known as the Caltech Seed Fund was gifted to the institution by Diane Gates Wallach.
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Engine Ventures plots $500m Scale Up Fund
Engine Ventures, the deep tech investor focused on university ecosystems including MIT and Harvard, is raising a huge new fund, The Next Leap can reveal.
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Rod Russell steps in as interim VP for research and innovation at Memorial
Rod Russell, the associate vice-president for research since January, will take over following Tana Allen’s departure at the end of the week.
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IU starts looking for Nick Hammond’s successor
Indiana University is seeking a new associate vice president for innovation and commercialisation, a role currently held by Nick Hammond.
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Vienna’s institutions launch Academic Spin-out Alliance
The alliance hopes to build on momentum in the Austrian innovation ecosystem where 23% of new startups are university spinouts.
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Asabys launches €74.7m fund for Spanish spinouts
The fund is backed by the EIF and the Spanish government’s Innvierte, which already backed two other spinout investment vehicles this year.
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Minnesota chooses Cynthia Carnes as VP for research and innovation
Cynthia Carnes has spent the past three decades at the Ohio State University, and will join the University of Minnesota in July.
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ANU appoints Stuart Wyithe as deputy VC for research and innovation
Stuart Wyithe was previously the director of the Australian National University’s Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics.
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Mok Seung-hwan joins South Korea’s Ministry of SMEs and Startups
Mok Seung-hwan has been the chief executive officer of Seoul National University Technology Holdings since 2020.
