Today, RemoteThreat is emerging from stealth, and we’re thrilled to lead its $7M pre-seed alongside DataTribe. RemoteThreat is building an Offensive Cyber Operations (O/C/O) platform that unifies advanced tooling, stealth-focused tradecraft, command-and-control, and governed AI. The long-term ambition is to become the OS for offensive cyber, giving red teams and government mission teams greater speed…
CU Boulder’s Embark Deep Tech Startup Creator & University of Michigan’s Accelerate Blue Foundry Breakthrough technologies from academic institution need more than just great science—they need great founders. But what happens when no founder is waiting in the wings? This webinar spotlights two pioneering programs designed to close that gap: CU Boulder’s Embark Deep Tech…
For our sixth annual ‘Ask a VC’ webinar, OUP’s Life Science Managing Partner, Matt Cohen, and Technology Partner, Manny Stockman answered academic founder’s and our partner TTO’s questions on anything and everything as it pertains to venture capital operations, decision-making, and the current investing environment. Since the purpose of this webinar was to answer questions…
Finding capital for your new venture is never easy, but recent years have been particularly deflated for certain sectors, including MedTech. What is a startup founder to do? Join three founders out of academic institutions who have attained capital for their new MedTech ventures in the past couple of years to hear their journeys in…
To continue the conversation from an earlier webinar, Founding a Startup as Graduate Students, Shelley Force Aldred sat with us to answer some questions that were submitted during the webinar that we were unable to get to due to time.
Looking for early-stage commercialization funding? Listen to hear our federal agency experts’ discussion on their small business research commercialization funding programs, SBIR and STTR. During the program, the experts reviewed: • General information on their agencies (NSF, NIH, and NCI) and how they work in the commercialization process • General information on the commercialization-focused programs…
Many universities now have Entrepreneur-in-Residence programs to help along nascent startups or aspiring academic founders. Experienced startup executives join these programs for various reasons and perform a variety of responsibilities to shepherd these early-stage opportunities. During this webinar, we spoke with three current EIRs: • Don Manfredi – University of Michigan • Julie Schoenfeld –…
As a graduate student, many career options lie in front of you. One potential route is founding a startup based on the innovative research conducted in your lab. Beginning a startup company is complex and challenging. While there are now many programs to assist academics in their startup endeavors, some aspects you learn as you…
Have you wondered what comprises a venture studio? How does this model differentiate from accelerators and incubators? Join us for an insightful webinar exploring the roles that venture studios play in the university innovation ecosystem. Moderated by Jaimie Testai, Best Practices Manager at OUP, this session featured three venture studios: Prutha Atre of Rose Rock…
Do you have a burning question on venture capital you need answered? Watch OUP’s fifth annual ‘Ask a VC’ webinar, a session where our partner TTOs can ask Managing Partners Marc Singer and Bill Harrington anything and everything as it pertains to venture capital operations, decision-making, and the current investing environment. Since the purpose of…