Cliff Gross
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Absolutely.
To the apex.
Tech Capital is a UK-based intellectual property investment company.
And we generate revenues by providing services to universities and companies around the world, as well as acquiring and investing in what we believe are promising university discoveries.
We have multiple portfolio companies, but one of the technologies that we've invested in was actually in the category of medical devices.
And we set up a portfolio company called Bellascura, and we acquired a range of medical devices from a leading medical device company.
And Bellascura has been doing terrific since its inception in 2018.
our best success story today.
What does that have to do with universities?
Well, a lot of the technology when you deconstruct it comes from universities, even though it may be in the hands of a corporation.
Oh, no, no.
Let me explain how it works.
First, you start with the network.
So we've built what we
hundred universities in our network online.
Well, we built an electronic network where we capture the intellectual properties available for license from universities in 160 countries.
And then we mine those intellectual properties for the ones that hopefully have the highest potential.
And so this is, it's really leveraging the university idea factory writ large.
It's a couple of things.
Well, we have certain themes that we like to invest around.