Europe
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Lansdowne Partners unveils $150 million spinout fund
The fund is targeting a $200 million close by December, and already counts the British Business Bank, Aviva Investors, and Lloyds as LPs.
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Graduate Ventures launches €80 million fund, expands to more universities
Three Amsterdam institutions are among the new partners for Graduate Ventures, which is also expanding to Eindhoven.
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University of Stirling recruits Teesside’s Steph Bales
Steph Bales has run knowledge exchange at Teesside University since 2017, and is a past chair of ARMA and INORMS.
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LIST picks Jennifer Dos Santos to oversee IP and licensing
Jennifer Dos Santos was previously a technology transfer officer at the Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology for more than a decade.
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Amir Rizwan steps away from London Social Ventures as pilot phase concludes
Amir Rizwan has stepped down as director of London Social Ventures, which concluded its two-year pilot phase with a report last month.
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Francis Crick Institute builds out entrepreneurship team
Jo Mills has joined as head of entrepreneurship and KQ Labs, while Ella Moonan Howard and Faye Murphy have also joined the team.
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KfW Capital backs UVC Partners’ growth fund
KfW Capital has backed the UVC Growth Opportunities Fund II, which achieved a first close of €77 million in March.
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Galway promotes Laoise McNamara to vice president for research and innovation
Laoise McNamara has been the head of the School of Engineering at the University of Galway since 2023, having worked for the institution since 2009.
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Ground State Ventures raises $88 million, doubles down on quantum globally
Formerly known as QDNL Participations, the firm focuses on quantum technology developers that it sources primarily from university labs.
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Northern Gritstone boosts coffers with £20 million as part of rolling close
The British Business Bank has committed another £10 million to Northern Gritstone, which now has £382 million under management.
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Glasgow promotes Morven Fraser-Walther to head of IP and commercialisation
Morven Fraser-Walther has worked for the University of Glasgow since 2019, when she joined to run the Aspect programme.
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Turbine Capital secures funding from EIF
The money is coming through the EIB Group’s TechEU financing, and adds SEK170 million to Turbine Capital’s coffers.
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ET Capital doubles down on Oxbridge
Having launched a first fund focused on Cambridge in January, ET Capital has quickly followed this up with a second fund aimed at Oxbridge.
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Taaleri buys majority stake in Nordic Science Investments
NSI’s management is selling a 51% stake in the spinout investment firm, which has a €45 million first fund.
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JIC launches CZK400 million fund to back startups across CEE
JIC was founded by four universities in Czechia’s South Moravian Region in 2003 and first began investing in 2015.
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Panel: AI is a recompilation engine
Is AI stealing your creativity? We’re tackling the ethical dilemmas and creative challenges of generative AI across marketing, gaming, and consulting.
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Constantin Coussios to lead innovation at Oxford following historic spinout exit
Constantin Coussios’ spinout OrganOx became the University of Oxford’s largest exit to date last year when it was bought for $1.5 billion.
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Empirical Ventures pockets another £10 million from British Business Bank
The British Business Bank’s commitment has now reached £15 million, and will allow Empirical Ventures to back more venture scientists.
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Ysios launches €100 million fund to fuel Spain’s biotech spinouts
Ysios Capital’s InceptionBio fund will build and invest in biotech spinouts across Spain to establish the country as a life sciences hub.
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Michael Stucky becomes CEO of Swiss Startup Association
Michael Stucky has founded two university spinouts and was founding managing partner of a planned pan-European university venture fund.
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Hetti Barkworth-Nanton: Defence innovation is about protecting the vulnerable
Hetti Barkworth-Nanton, CEO of Ploughshare Innovations and chair of Refuge, explores how security innovation and social impact can coexist.
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Poli360 pushes Fund II to €85 million first close
Managed by 360 Capital, the spinout investment fund has a target size of €100 million and will invest in early-stage deeptech spinouts.
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Rachel Simpson starts as director of pan-Scottish commercialisation office ShaKEs
Employed by Queen Margaret University, Rachel Simpson will be based at Abertay University and support knowledge exchange activities across Scotland’s smaller institutions.
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Cambridge x Manchester enlists Faye Holland to lead partnership
Faye Holland brings considerable expertise of the Cambridge cluster in particular to the job, and is a successfully exited founder.
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UVC Partners launches €150 million growth fund
The fund already stands at €77 million, and UVC Partners is targeting the end of summer for the final close.
