“The world’s largest university venturing fund…”

20th May 2015

Global University Venturing investigates the creation of Oxford Sciences Innovation - the largest single university venturing fund it has yet recorded.

“Oxford can rarely be accused of failing to think big. Number one in the UK for its research impact and consistently scoring at the top of global rankings, the institution produces some of the best research and academic spin-outs in the world. In the past year and a half, Oxford saw 2014’s largest university spin-out exit of gaming firm NaturalMotion in a $527m acquisition, a $104m series A for its immunotherapy spin-out Adaptimmune which subsequently floated in April 2015 raising $191.3m in its IPO, and has supported the launch of two seed funds at Oxford University Innovation, the university’s technology transfer office (TTO).

Now, the university is partnering with Isis and several big name investors to create Oxford Sciences Innovation (OSI). OSI is the largest single university venturing fund yet recorded by Global University Venturing, with the possible exception of the Stanford Start X fund depending on whether you believe calling an endowment-fuelled fund “uncapped” automatically makes it bigger than any fund with a stated size….”

…Global University Venturing website

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