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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.