Turning research into ventures.
We work with academic institutions to commercialize research, support student founders, and connect campus innovation to global markets.
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- university partners
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- programs delivered
Why 2080 for universities
Research becomes a company at a very specific moment, and most technology transfer offices are staffed to protect the IP rather than to run that moment. That is where we come in. We have run global programs with Seoul National University and the University of Ulsan Technology Holdings, taking lab teams through commercial validation and into their first international market.
What you get
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Commercialisation programs
Structured tracks that take research teams from lab to first customer, run with your TTO rather than around it.
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Global market entry
Cohorts that take spin-outs to the US, Korea, Japan and the Gulf, with local partners waiting on the other side.
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Investor readiness
IR training, deck work and introductions to investors who fund deep tech rather than apps.
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Corporate partners
The industrial partners who license, pilot or acquire what comes out of your labs.
University partners we deliver with
2024 Marketing & Global Program, 7 startups.
2024 Busan-Ulsan-Gyeongnam University Global IR, 4 startups.
From the newsletter
Your “pilot” doesn’t fail in the lab.
Most “open calls” are not pipelines. They’re performance reports.
If your program’s best output is a slide deck, it wasn’t innovation. It was theatre.
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