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Filed under: university spinout

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Startup news

Imperial alumni fund opens with £100k-£300k cheques

Project Ventures has launched a £5m debut fund for pre-seed and seed deeptech founders connected to Imperial College London. Three companies are already in.

№ 258 · 22 September 2026
Startup news

Oxford, Cambridge and London take two-thirds of spinout capital

A review published by UK Research and Innovation found three cities absorbed most of the venture money going into UK university spinouts. Founders elsewhere are still buying train tickets to London.

№ 238 · 14 September 2026
Policy

UK rules out exit tax on university spinouts

The government has said it will not charge founders a tax for moving a spinout abroad. Investors welcomed the decision.

№ 185 · 4 September 2026
Startup news

British Business Bank puts £46m into Zinc's £70m science fund

The state-backed lender is committing up to £46m through its Enterprise Capital Funds programme to a pre-seed fund that intends to help start 80 deeptech companies. What it will not yet say is how founders get in.

№ 183 · 4 September 2026
Startup news

EcoNomad raises £400,000 for farm-scale anaerobic digester

The Harpenden company sells a shrunken version of a technology normally built for industrial sites. Its target buyers are livestock farms too small to justify one.

№ 126 · 23 August 2026
Startup news

Lancaster spinout Mindgard raises $30m to secure enterprise AI

The AI security company, spun out of Lancaster University and now split between London and Boston, has closed a €26 million Series A led by Album VC.

№ 77 · 14 August 2026