Hi community, It has been a great week for Lucyd, a Tekcapital’s portfolio company, and we are excited to share it with you! Today Lucyd launched its new collection with Richard Sherman, the “Sherman Shade Collection”. This new line includes plenty of new features that you would want to try. These features include cutting-edge lens...
Hello community! One of our portfolio companies is thriving towards its main goal, to improve the quality of life using university technology. In the last year, we have seen important advancements in our four portfolio companies. It is thanks to tools such as Invention Evaluator that we were able to acquire these technologies and create...
In its initial edition, The Innovation Summit Brazil 2019, invited Tekcapital to present “The Role of Universities in Successful Start-up Creation” for approximately two thousand people. The event was held from August 12 to August 14, 2019, in Florianopolis, Brazil. The main purpose of the event was to stimulate innovation investments within Brazil, by gathering...
Tekcapital has executed a strategic alliance with The Technological University of Queretaro (UTEQ) to expand services in Mexico. UTEQ is a leading public university located in the high-tech zone of Queretaro that supports the technology and innovations ecosystem. UTEQ has created the Creativity and Innovation Center (CIC) 4.0 as a platform to promote industry commercialization...
Between May 6 and May 11, 2019, 40 participants from different countries participated in the Technology Transfer and Commercialization Hub of the Americas, held in Panama City (Panama), promoted by the National Secretary of Science Technology and Innovation (SENACYT), The Organization of the American States (OAS) and the PILA network, based at the Technological University...
Tekcapital, an intellectual property investment group, successfully delivered an advanced technology commercialization and university start-up 5-day training program in Santiago (Chile), in collaboration with the HUB APTA and the Chilean Biotechnology Association. The program consisted of training services focused on creating an effective and productive TTO and the key skills for start-up formation. Besides that,...
Tekcapital was enthusiastic to announce they completed a strategic alliance agreement with Emprende UP, the incubator and accelerator platform of Universidad del Pacifico (UP), for expanding Tekcapital’s commercialization services in Peru. Universidad del Pacífico (UP) is Peru’s leading Business School. Through Emprende UP, they have been securing seed funding and assisting a large number of...
As a leader in the technology transfer space, Tekcapital was consulted in a recent Huffington Post article about the need for innovation in Fortune 500 companies. The article discussed how critical and difficult it is to be innovative in the modern market, even though research is increasing at an unprecedented rate. The truth is that...
The world of intellectual property is advancing at an exponential rate. Unlike the early industrial era, where a span of years or even decades occurred between major technological breakthroughs, we are now in an atmosphere of constantly evolving innovation. What this means for businesses is that in-house research capabilities will not be enough to be...
Moore’s Law, which effectively states that production microchips double in processing power approximately every two years, is also observable in the world of university technology transfer. An increasing number of research institutions are producing a rapidly-growing stream of powerful new IP. With open innovation trends connecting these discoveries on a global network, we can expect...
