Grow Venture Partners

Xenon University Partners is launching a $5M Seed fund to support US-led startups specializing in deep tech innovations, cultivating strategic partnerships with 30+ premier universities and research-centric institutions in the Northeast United States. What Is Xenon University Partners? Xenon University Partners is a traditional venture capital fund that specializes in investing in early stage startups founded by students, professors, and researchers focused on commercializing academic deep tech research. Our goal is to identify the most promising and disruptive ideas, and support these founders in building successful businesses that drive positive and meaningful impact in their respective industries. We believe in the power of diversity and inclusivity, and strive to create a more inclusive ecosystem for entrepreneurship and venture capital.

Investing in groundbreaking technologies means actively shaping the future. Passion is what drives us. Look deeper is our approach. About Onsight Ventures Think globally, act locally. We bring together bright minds to create technologies that have a global impact. Based in Innsbruck, Onsight Ventures is setting new momentum for high-tech start-ups in Austria and Europe. Supported by founding partners Hermann Hauser Investment, Round2 Capital, I.E.C.T., and Standortagentur Tirol, Onsight Ventures builds on a Europe-wide network of industry leading start-ups, universities and experts, to work closely with and support outstanding management teams in the implementation of their technology-based business ideas. Our vision – to work with tomorrow's most outstanding entrepreneurs today. Our goal – to support the development of young companies in reaching their goals and thus partake in actively shaping the future. Our core valuesAmbition: BioNTech, a company largely unknown before the COVID crisis, is making history. This has been achieved following the founding of a successful spin-off, led by three physicians - including Tyrolean Christoph Huber, a member of the Onsight advisory board. Excellence: We don't have to look to Silicon Valley or China for inspiration or knowledge; here in Europe we have excellent university and non-institute-based research.There is no lack of innovation. Convinced by their potential, our sweet spot is academic start-ups and university spin-offs. Impact: The 21st century is presenting us and our planet with major challenges. We are convinced that young entrepreneurs can achieve a positive impact with their technologies and business models by pursuing their goals with passion. Our responsibility as an investor is to help sustainable technologies grow both capital and know-how. Integrity: Entrepreneurship is a team sport. The road to building an internationally successful company is a rocky one. That's why trust, honesty and integrity play a crucial role in the long-term cooperation between founder teams and investors.

Mila Ventures is building the Venture Scientist platform: an integrated venture-creation engine designed to translate frontier AI research into world-class companies - rooted in Canada, built for the world. Mila Ventures operates within Mila, a prestigious AI research institute based in Montréal, founded by Yoshua Bengio, one of the godfathers of modern artificial intelligence and a pioneer of deep learning. The platform brings together: Mila Venture Studio (co-creating companies with professors, students, and entrepreneurs) Mila Accelerator (early company building and scaling) Venture Scientist Academy (training researchers to become venture builders) The Mila Venture Fund (in formation) We operate at the intersection of AI research, venture creation, and capital, working closely with Mila's globally renowned researchers, students, founders, investors, corporate partners, and public institutions.

We have a unique setup that combines venture creation and tech investments within a single organization. This advantage enables us to identify new research and deep tech opportunities with both commercial and impact potential, all within Chalmers’ entrepreneurial ecosystem. We are experts in starting up companies based on deep tech and research in the most effective manner possible. This process allows us to cultivate our own high-quality deal flow in which we invest and become active owners. Throughout the entire journey, we function as investors and venture builders until exit. Profits are reinvested through our evergreen model and allocated to Chalmers to support new, groundbreaking research. Our investment processWe identify market potential in research-based tech We match the team We invest in and startup the company We attract competent capital with external VCs We have active ownership until exit Our deal flow criteriaDeep tech / research based tech University spinouts Global commercial and impact potential Our process: from lab to market We use our long experience to create conditions required for a growth company to start up correctly and with the right structural capital. We are then involved in the startup through competence and capital until exit. Simply put: we take groundbreaking research from lab to market. IDENTIFY: We attract, seek out and evaluate research and technology ideas. The technologies with the greatest potential are matched with entrepreneurs. SHAPE AND START: Create the basic conditions to shape companies correctly and build structural capital. We are involved in starting up the companies and provides additional benefits during that first critical period. VALIDATE & VERIFY: Validating business model, working for paying customers and unlocking the business model. Find the right proof points to validate and verify the company’s unique idea to both the market and investors. SCALE: Becoming sustainable growth companies reaching out to an international market. Chalmers Ventures works with its skills as active owners, provides professional governance and syndicates the right growth capital. EXIT: Chalmers Ventures pursues a positive exit strategy at what it feels is the right time. We can focus our resources on those companies with the greatest potential and positive impact on the portfolio.

Kyoto University Innovation Capital Co., Ltd. was established in December 2014 with 100% investment from the National University Corporation, Kyoto University. It is a venture capital firm dedicated to investing in startup companies that leverage the advanced research achievements of national universities, including Kyoto University, a world-class research institution. Our goal is to contribute to the creation of next-generation industries. A statement from a certain researcher remains vivid in my memory: “While there have been startup companies utilizing research results that I poured my heart into, many of them were overseas companies, with very few examples of Japanese companies.” In recent years, expectations for university-based startups have increased, and the number of excellent startup companies utilizing university research achievements in Japan has also increased. Considering the level and depth of academic research in Japan, we believe there should be even more entrepreneurial opportunities (seeds) at universities. Therefore, our company not only focuses on “discovering investment opportunities” but also devotes itself to “supporting entrepreneurship based on university research seeds” and is committed to creating university-based startups. In January 2016, we established the Innovation Kyoto 2016 Investment Limited Partnership (1st Fund); with the support of business corporations, financial institutions, and private venture capital firms, we have been actively engaged in financing start-ups, creating carve-out ventures in collaborations with large companies and investing in overseas start-ups. With the establishment of the Innovation Kyoto 2021 Investment Limited Partnership (2nd Fund) in January 2021, it became possible to, under certain conditions, invest in startup companies originating from national universities other than Kyoto University. Through such investments, we aim to share the expertise we have cultivated and contribute to uplifting the overall ecosystem of university-based startups not only at Kyoto University but also at other national universities. However, carrying out these activities independently poses a challenge for our company. Therefore, we strongly feel that increased support from everyone is more necessary now than ever before. For this reason, we sincerely appreciate your continued guidance and encouragement.

We invest in visionary science start-ups. As part of the xista ecosystem, set up by the Institute of Science and Technology Austria, xista science ventures speak the language of scientist and investor. This makes us a unique partner to fuel founders’ deep tech ideas and help build exciting, scalable companies. Our understanding of academic spin-offs and the deep tech founders landscape, allows xista science ventures to recognise, analyse and propel companies to the next stage. We encourage the cross-fertilisation of startups to inspire new discoveries. Let us learn and profit from each other.