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Holliday breaks with Oxford University Innovation

Richard Holliday has left the tech transfer office to join Oxford spinout Bodle Technologies.

Jul 12, 2016

The importance of people

For Mawsonia, the publishing company behind Global Corporate Venturing and Global University Venturing, we have been following this advice since our launch in 2010 and I am glad to now welcome Dominic Riley as our chairman.

Nov 23, 2013

Universities incubating the future

Universities, such as MIT, Cornell, and Harvard Business School, have been recruiting entrepreneurs in residence (EIRs) in advisory roles to help students and faculty commericalise and have the greatest impact with their ideas.

Nov 16, 2013

Stanford-backed Alpine finds new CEO

Stanford-backed big data firm Alpine Data Labs appoints Joe Otto as new chief executive officer.

Mar 8, 2013

Harvard angel Jacobsohn lands at Emergence

Jacobsohn worked at numerous software as a service companies and is an angel investor and advisor to startup companies including Emergence Capital portfolio company Doximity.

Jul 25, 2012

Trinean hires Philippe Stas

Stas, who previously held the same role at Algonomics, a Belgium-based biotech service provider before its sale to Lonza Group, succeeds Marc Zabeau, who remains on the board of directors.

Jul 15, 2012

PolyTherics gains Pitchford as director

Pitchford is managing director of healthcare investments at Imperial Innovations Group, a UK-listed venture capital firm that primarily supports spin-outs from British universities after its own spin out from Imperial College London.

May 27, 2012

CardioInsight appoints Jim Bullock chairman

The maker of electrocardiographic mapping technology, a spin-out from Case Western Reserve University, appoints Bullock to role a month after a $7.5m funding round, as executive chairman Steve Arless leaves.

Apr 19, 2012

Other News

Cancer research litigation

The Leonard and Madlyn Abramson Family Cancer Research Institute at the Abramson Cancer Center of the University of Pennsylvania has sued Craig Thompson and healthcare companies Agios Pharmaceuticals and Celgene, in Federal Court, according to news provider Courthouse News.

Jan 16, 2012

Editor's Picks

9 startups that aim to make us live longer

Corporate investors are backing a host of elder-care startups, from those seeking Parkinson's cures to apps aiding mental wellbeing.

Nov 22, 2022

5 corporate investing pitfalls to avoid

Corporate investors have a more complicated role to navigate than financial VCs. But these 5 strategies can help smooth the job.

Nov 11, 2022

Half of corporate investors negotiate special rights for portfolio company exits

Corporate investors rarely acquire the portfolio companies they invest in, but most will still negotiate special rights around an exit.

Oct 24, 2022
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