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UVC and RTO funds
Fund managers build international investor relationships separately. Thesis concentrates these relationships in one summit.
- Meet your peers, learn from each other and start cross-border collaborations.
- Meet potential LPs and build the relationships you need to raise your next fund.
- Nominate portfolio companies for Investors connecting with Spinouts and put them in front of deep tech capital.
LPs
LPs lack a focused view of UVC and RTO fund managers. Thesis gives LPs that view in one place.
- For research commercialisation and deep tech at fund level, this is the place to go.
- A single entry point to the UVC and RTO fund asset class.
- More of its fund managers in one place than anywhere else.
Investors
Spinout investors meet portfolios one institution at a time. Thesis brings institutionally nominated companies into one room.
- Science-based, focused deal flow from leading universities and RTOs.
- Companies nominated or endorsed by their own institutions.
Innovation agencies and policymakers
- The most complete overview of the sector: its data, its initiatives and who is doing what.
- Meet your counterparts from other countries around one table.
Spinouts
- Meet investors who back spinouts, in pre-booked meetings.
- Selected companies pitch to deep tech and impact VCs, CVCs, family offices and selected angels.
Eligibility and priority areas
Incorporated, with a university or RTO affiliation, and nominated or endorsed by a university, TTO, TTC, university venture fund or RTO. Direct applicants bring a support letter from their institution. Mainly pre-seed and seed, with a few Series A.
Priority areas: life sciences and health; climate, energy and environmental technologies; advanced materials and industrial technologies; AI, quantum, photonics, semiconductors and advanced computing; space, security, mobility and resilience; agrifood and the bioeconomy. Other research-based sectors are not excluded.