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Holliday breaks with Oxford University Innovation
Richard Holliday has left the tech transfer office to join Oxford spinout Bodle Technologies.
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.
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.
Stanford-backed Alpine finds new CEO
Stanford-backed big data firm Alpine Data Labs appoints Joe Otto as new chief executive officer.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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.