The Engine Fund, a tough tech-focused VC vehicle associated with Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Engine incubator, has reached a final oversubscribed close of $205m, according to the MIT 2018 Treasurer’s Report. The capital, which surpassed MIT’s original $150m target, includes a $25m commitment from the university originally reported by GUV in April 2017, in addition to money from VC funds…
Harare Institute of Technology (HIT) has launched a tech transfer office (TTO) dubbed the Technology Transfer, Commercialization and Licensing Centre (TTCLC), 263chat has reported. TTCLC is Zimbabwe’s first standalone tech transfer office, with responsibility for commercialisation activities including intellectual property, licensing and invention disclosures. The unit is also expected to take care of joint venture partnerships with external parties and…
France-based immuno-oncology developer Honing Biosciences has officially spun out of research centre Institut Curie, which equipped the startup with an undisclosed amount of seed capital. Honing Biosciences will advance a protein delivery mechanism mainly focused on reprogramming immune system cells from the chimeric antigen receptor (Car-T cells), so they can recognise and destroy cancerous bodies. The spinout aims to overcome…
Not that long ago, the summer months for Global University Venturing featured little activity as…
Pascal Lamy, the so-called “gendarme” of the European Commission (EC) in the 1980s and 1990s,…
“Developers will be at the centre of solving the world’s most pressing challenges.” I used…
Duke University’s office of licensing and ventures (OLV) spawned 16 new spinouts during the 2018…
Asarina Pharma, a Sweden-based biotechnology spinout of University of Umeå, floated on the Nasdaq First…
Lettus Grow, a UK-based irrigation system developer affiliated with University of Bristol and the SetSquared…
