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Cliff Gross

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128 total appearances

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SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
915 He Hunts Down University IP and Figures Out How to Commercialize at Scale

Absolutely.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
915 He Hunts Down University IP and Figures Out How to Commercialize at Scale

To the apex.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
915 He Hunts Down University IP and Figures Out How to Commercialize at Scale

Tech Capital is a UK-based intellectual property investment company.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
915 He Hunts Down University IP and Figures Out How to Commercialize at Scale

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.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
915 He Hunts Down University IP and Figures Out How to Commercialize at Scale

We have multiple portfolio companies, but one of the technologies that we've invested in was actually in the category of medical devices.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
915 He Hunts Down University IP and Figures Out How to Commercialize at Scale

And we set up a portfolio company called Bellascura, and we acquired a range of medical devices from a leading medical device company.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
915 He Hunts Down University IP and Figures Out How to Commercialize at Scale

And Bellascura has been doing terrific since its inception in 2018.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
915 He Hunts Down University IP and Figures Out How to Commercialize at Scale

our best success story today.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
915 He Hunts Down University IP and Figures Out How to Commercialize at Scale

What does that have to do with universities?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
915 He Hunts Down University IP and Figures Out How to Commercialize at Scale

Well, a lot of the technology when you deconstruct it comes from universities, even though it may be in the hands of a corporation.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
915 He Hunts Down University IP and Figures Out How to Commercialize at Scale

Oh, no, no.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
915 He Hunts Down University IP and Figures Out How to Commercialize at Scale

Let me explain how it works.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
915 He Hunts Down University IP and Figures Out How to Commercialize at Scale

First, you start with the network.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
915 He Hunts Down University IP and Figures Out How to Commercialize at Scale

So we've built what we

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
915 He Hunts Down University IP and Figures Out How to Commercialize at Scale

hundred universities in our network online.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
915 He Hunts Down University IP and Figures Out How to Commercialize at Scale

Well, we built an electronic network where we capture the intellectual properties available for license from universities in 160 countries.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
915 He Hunts Down University IP and Figures Out How to Commercialize at Scale

And then we mine those intellectual properties for the ones that hopefully have the highest potential.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
915 He Hunts Down University IP and Figures Out How to Commercialize at Scale

And so this is, it's really leveraging the university idea factory writ large.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
915 He Hunts Down University IP and Figures Out How to Commercialize at Scale

It's a couple of things.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
915 He Hunts Down University IP and Figures Out How to Commercialize at Scale

Well, we have certain themes that we like to invest around.

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