Funds that invest in university spinouts are a growing asset class, having seen strong expansion over the past three years. However, there are few benchmarks focused on specifically these funds.

It is our aim at Global Corporate Venturing to collect enough data on these university venture funds to create a benchmarking tool that fund managers can use to compare their performance with other funds.

For the past two years we have run surveys of university funds and independent fund managers to build a picture of spinout investment vehicles globally. READ MORE