Summit Venture Studio
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Summit Venture Studio is a venture studio uniquely dedicated to transforming university-developed and grant-funded software technology into flourishing startups. The studio identifies, creates, and invests in companies based on university-developed software technologies created by professors and researchers (not students) that leverage federal research grants. With a national network of partnerships with university tech-transfer offices, SVS accesses an exclusive pool of innovative and under-leveraged software technologies that typically remain trapped in bureaucratic limbo. The studio provides a comprehensive suite of services including in-house marketing, sales, legal, finance, and product teams to accelerate portfolio companies from concept to market. SVS operates through a proprietary three-stage process: Discover (sourcing and vetting technologies from university tech transfer offices), Develop (preparing technology for commercialization and achieving initial product-market fit), and Deploy (building on early traction with industry partners to achieve scalable growth). The studio aims to exit companies through acquisition within years, not decades, providing investors with 2-3x more ownership than typical early-stage investments and accelerating time-to-market with fractional services and proven go-to-market strategies.
2019
5 Companies
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