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Cliff Gross

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
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

Some clients are on board now since the very inception.

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

They keep repurchasing the service.

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

They don't want to miss something exciting that might be going on at one of the major universities in the world.

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

Well, again, the business was Tech Capital PLC was incorporated in 2014.

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

No, we had, we had probably a year and a half as we built our electronic network for capturing the data worldwide.

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

So, you know, we had some

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

Some sort of in-house housekeeping that we have to do to prepare ourselves to be able to offer the service.

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

Yeah, there are.

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

We have an invention evaluator service.

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

which is a terrific service that we provided to around 250 universities around the world and a few large companies.

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

And basically it allows those companies to evaluate a new invention in terms of what is the market potential of the invention.

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

So we produce a report delivered to the customer within 10 business days.

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

So that's a really lovely service for allowing companies and universities to get their mind around the market opportunity of new technologies that they've developed.

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

And then a, go ahead, I'm sorry.

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

Yeah, there is.

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

We have a, we acquired a company a year ago called Vortex Group, which is a executive placement service, but it only places a certain type of individual.

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

And those are people who are experts in technology transfer and technology commercialization.

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

So those are the three services that we're offering to research institutions worldwide and companies.

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

And it has a dual benefit.

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

It not only generates revenue, but it also keeps us very tight with the university supplier network globally.