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…
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 –…
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…
While innovations out of academia in the STEM area are the basis of more than 1000 startup companies per year in the U.S., academic inventors are not always the right fit to lead these startup companies. Given this, how does an academic founder find a great individual to fill the CEO position? Following up on…
Part one of a two-part webinar series on finding a CEO for your academic startup company focuses on the evaluation process for CEO candidates. OUP Managing Partner Marc Singer discussed the importance of the leadership team to a startup’s success and explore methods for evaluating outside CEOs. The webinar highlights relevant backgrounds and important characteristics…
Starting companies out of universities is a complex endeavor, but startups can get a head start when done in conjunction with a company formation investor. In this webinar, we heard from three company formation investors in the life sciences: Each investor described their fund thesis, what they look for in opportunities arising from academic institutions,…
Do you have a burning question on venture capital you need answered? Join OUP for our fourth 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…
Join OUP for a webinar discussing models, structures, and best practices in raising pre-seed and seed funding for university startup companies from angels and accelerators. Our panel of experts will review their own models, which are distinct from each other in both the areas in which they invest as well as the additional value they provide. Other topics covered will include raising pre-seed and seed amounts, timing and structures for the raises, how to meet with these types of investors, the roles potentially played by these investors with the startups, and much more.
A common practice across universities that hold equity in a company that IPOs is to sell all of its shares as soon as the lock up expires. But do the best returns necessarily come from selling all your stock immediately? When is the right time to sell stock in a therapeutics company?
In 2014 venture funding in healthcare IT shattered records, surpassing $4.1 billion, followed by an equally impressive performance in 2015 with $4.5 billion invested in the sector. While investment in digital healthcare cooled slightly in 2016 compared to previous record highs, investment in the sector remains significant with $4.3 billion invested in 2016. It’s a diverse, emerging sector with a barrage of startups competing in a broad marketplace to improve healthcare delivery as the nation’s $3 trillion healthcare delivery system gradually transitions from volume-based to value-based care.