Everything Cliff Gross said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Gross: Universities worldwide produce over 100k IPs yearly, with 1M unsold
“If you look at the, if you step back and look at the universities worldwide, they're producing more than a 100,000 intellectual properties a year, and they have perhaps a million in inventory that have gone unsold or licensed.”
Gross: Tekcapital network captures university IP across 160 countries
“Well, we built an electronic network where we capture the intellectual properties available for license from universities in 160 countries.”
Tekcapital acquired salt manufacturing IP from University of Arkansas with 78% less sodium
“One was from the University of Arkansas. We've acquired two technologies. One is actually a new form of salt, a new way of manufacturing table salt that has, in the table salt version of it has 78% less sodium, so it's healthier for the users.”
Tekcapital acquired 13 optics patents from UCF for augmented reality glasses
“We've acquired a portfolio of 13 optics patents from the University of Central Florida. That allow you to make freeform optics designs in glasses that are lightweight, not bulky, and should look like normal glasses.”
Gross: Tekcapital made $1.5M profit on $3.8M sales in H1 2017
“You know, in the first six months of this year we did 3.8 million in sales, and we made about a million and a half dollars.”
Gross: Tekcapital provided Invention Evaluator to ~250 global universities
“We have an invention evaluator service, which is a terrific service that we provided to around 250 universities around the world and a few large companies.”
Gross: Belloscura is Tekcapital's top success story after 18 months
“One of the technologies that we've invested in was actually in the category of medical devices, and we set up a portfolio company called Belloscura, and we acquired a range of medical devices from a leading medical device company, and Belloscura has been doing…”
Gross: Tekcapital acquired UCF optics patents for under $1M
“Less than a million. And it's the university of central Florida.”
Gross: Tekcapital employs 15 full-time staff and 60 part-time scientists
“We have 15 people inside full-time, and we have 60 people part-time, which are scientists that do the deep-dive due diligence on the technologies.”
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