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University Spinouts

Venture Capital Funding

Cambridge Innovation Capital raising second fund

CIC acts as a booster rocket for tech start-ups spun out from Cambridge university, with £200m invested in 35 companies to date

Venture Capital Funding

Northern Gritstone on track to raising £500m fund for northern universities

Fund has found backing for its first £100m with another £300m in discussion, enabling it to back two dozen northern university spinouts a year

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UK universities make £61m from spinout exits

University spinout exits have proven lucrative, with the highest exit values being in AI, quantum computing and medical and life sciences

Technology

Parkwalk raising £200m scale-up fund for university tech spinouts

UK’s largest EIS fund says UK is woefully underfunded when it comes to backing Britain’s bleeding edge tech scale-ups

Social Media

How this university spin-out leverages social media for stock trading

Scoop Analytics, a University of Glasgow spin-out company is harnessing social media to help traders make better decisions about the stock market.

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University spin-out gets backing from LSE-listed IP Group

Intellectual property developer IP Group has led a new investment into a University of Sheffield spin-out business developing hormone deficiency treatments.

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Oxford Capital invests in mosquito control business

A business which has developed a technology associated with the control of dengue mosquitoes is now equipped with $10 million of growth capital.

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Smart laundry business Xeros makes move towards public markets

Xeros is set to build on the venture capital funding it has already received by floating on London's Alternative Investment Market.

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Metabolomic Diagnostics finds two backers for maiden funding round

A seed funding round worth €750,000 has been closed by Irish business Metabolomic Diagnostics to help with growth.

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Cleantech spin-out Econic Technologies closes £5.1 million Series A round

Technology commercialisation investor Imperial Innovations has led a £5.1 million investment into cleantech business Econic Technologies.

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Cambridge spin-out Aqdot gets Imperial Innovations cash

Chemical technology business Aqdot has closed a £1 million seed funding round with help from Imperial Innovations, Cambridge Enterprise and other backers.

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Venture capital-backed Applied Graphene Materials set to seek AIM admission

A high specification graphene business backed by intellectual property investor IP Group has outlined a move to AIM as part of its latest growth efforts.