Building a Board That Actually Helps What three veteran tech transfer leaders taught us about advisory boards for academic innovation operations On August 19, Osage University Partners (OUP) hosted a live panel on Advisory Boards for Innovation Operations at Academic Institutions. The conversation drew on decades of hands-on experience building, running, and occasionally revamping advisory…
Strategic advisory boards are becoming one of the most valuable tools for university innovation and commercialization offices — connecting institutions with the entrepreneurs, VCs, industry leaders, and government partners who help turn university technologies into real-world impact. In this webinar, three innovation leaders from top research universities share an inside look at how their advisory…
When founding your first startup, you know you will need help from attorneys, but what are the most critical early legal needs for your fledgling startup? For this webinar, Brian Appel and Matthew Brown of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati and Tali Muchin and Marc Morley of Mintz reviewed four of those main areas and…
The next installment of our Meet the VCs webinar series, we’re pleased to have had Kyle Welborn of Cultivation Capital and Alex Bondar of Acre Venture Partners join us. Kyle will start us off with an overview of the 2025 AgTech area investment and exit data, observations on the various market sectors within AgTech, and…
Join Bill Harrington and Allen Chen of OUP’s investment team for a discussion on startup financing trends to review the state of the venture funding landscape. We covered current market behaviors across the entire startup ecosystem with a specific emphasis on university spinouts. Bill Harrington outlined trends in the life sciences, including biopharma, research tools,…
In 2021, OUP and three licensing experts presented a 5-part comprehensive series on the basics of startup licenses out of academia. Join OUP, Certified Licensing Professionals, and our panel of experts for this “highlights” discussion as a refresher on academic startup licenses and updates on particular areas of negotiation. Topics include: • Field(s) of use…
Across academic institutions, patent budgets are under strain. As costs rise and revenue sources shift, universities are being asked to do more with less while still supporting innovation and protecting discoveries. Now more than ever, it is critical to adopt clear strategies for deciding what to file, how to manage portfolio costs, and where to…
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…