The Usual Path
It starts with an invention disclosure and the institution’s decision to protect it. The founding team then agrees terms with the technology transfer office, often an option first and a license later, forms the company, and sets out the research and funding that move the technology toward a product.
What Makes a Spinout Fundable
A clear problem and the people who would pay for its solution; data that holds up; intellectual property that covers what the company will sell; a plan for the next milestones; and a team, including people from outside the lab, that can carry the work through development.
Where Academic Founders Get Stuck
The common gaps are not scientific: a license negotiated before the business case is clear, research that answers academic rather than commercial questions, and fundraising begun before the story and the data line up. We work beside founders through each of these, from feasibility to the first round.
