$152m new investment in university startups
Thank you to Ahmet-Hamdi Cavusoglu, PhD, who served at the helm of AVX during four years of explosive growth
The fusion of mega rounds for energy, companies driving into the public, and quantum annealing of other companies
Q4 metrics
The great wave of deep tech continues to swell, as Cellino Biotech and Nth Cycle took home top honors from Startup Battlefield at TechCrunch Disrupt 2021. And we remember the life of Walter Scott, Jr.
Another year, another birthday for AVX! As we come up on completing our 5th year, we're excited to look toward the future and continue to highlight some news and events across our community.
As startups raise records amounts of funding, and more scientists start new ventures, these teams are spending more on hiring.
The U.S. Innovation and Competition Act passed the Senate
Rising COVID vaccination rates is still top of mind as we slowly climb out of the pandemic.
Feel the winds of change for May? It just might be that shift in Tech+Bio funding growth ...
And what a March it has been, with Stefanie Tompkins returning as Director of DARPA, IndieBio and Y Combinator having busy class days, publishing of the proposed IDEA Act of 2021, and much more!
Have you registered for the AUTM 2021 Annual Meeting yet? Dial in to a great panel on How to Launch More Start-Ups, Faster and Stronger.
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Happy New Year greetings
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November was a very busy month. You did remember to get a flu shot, right? And to vote? Have a Zoomsgiving? Perhaps dial into a few summits?
Engage 2020
As we leave September (L'shanah tovah to those celebrating this past weekend), I remain excited to see what October has in store.
We have a full deck of events, including must attend ones from Yale, UCLA, the University of Chicago, the University of Illinois, and Northwestern.
August promises to be a busy month, but I wanted to take this space to point out an excellent correspondence by Jackie Grant (Abingworth) in Nature Biotechnology last month.
While the 4th of July is right around the corner, here in NYC it sounds like it's been the 4th for the past 4 weeks!
As it is plain to see, we continue to live in strange and difficult times that were inconceivable just months ago.
It's been more than 6 weeks of PAUSE here in New York and I hope this email finds you well. COVID-19 continues to be top of mind as a global public health crisis ...
One month later, as COVID-19 grew into a global public health crisis, I have been very lucky to discover the warmer, caring, and driven side of many members of the AVX community.
Welcome to the Academic Venture Exchange, version 2.0!
After more than 3 years and over 5000 connections, we are beginning to synthesize your feedback further improve AVX in 2020.
Happy New Years! I hope you had a great time celebrating the end of 2019 and are ready for 2020.
We are up to 4363 total connections and conversations on the AVX network - 276 more over the last month!
Happy Hallowmas! (That's what you say after Happy Halloween, right?)
Highlighting some great news like The Founder Dating Playbook shared by First Round Capital this week + OUP's latest Research Realized episodes.
We are up to 3714 total connections and conversations on the AVX network - 152 more over the last month.
In this newsletter, we will be: 1) reminding you about your AVX access, 2) providing an update on our growth, 3) tease our latest match, and 4) give you a hint of our new feature we are beta testing.
Welcome to July! As always, thank you for being a valuable part of AVX and wish you a wonderful Independence Day this week.
Welcome to July! In the spirit of independence, we will keep this newsletter brief this month and dive right in.
We are up to 2590 total connections and conversations on the AVX network - 275 more over the last month (11% month-over-month growth).
We have some exciting updates for you in this AVX newsletter: we are announcing our latest match along with four more institutions joining the AVX network.
We are up to 2075 total connections and conversations on the AVX network - 227 more over the last month (6.5% month-over-month growth).
We are over 1100 total conversations or connections on the AVX network so far - 160 more over the last month, and 873 new connections over the past 4 quarters.
AVX facilitated over 550 introductions between entrepreneurs and start-up, with 8 matches so far with over 30 more pending. That is 2x as many matches and 3x as many pending matches since February!
Our latest listing of 75 university ventures looking for business leadership, connections, feedback, and - in some cases - funding is being hosted on our web-platform (currently in beta)!
Our ongoing goal is to build an effective collective engine for matching university start-ups with C-level management and connections.
The AVX concept continues to gain momentum. This listing is almost double the size of our first effort in the Fall.
On Sept 27, 2016, we released our first newsletter as a test of our hypothesis for AVX.
