Cliff Gross

CEO & Executive Chairman, Tekcapital · 1 appearance on the record.

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Gross specializes in identifying and commercializing university-developed intellectual property, having founded and taken public three companies: Biomechanics Corp., UTEK Corporation, and Tekcapital. A former ergonomics and biomechanics professor, he holds nearly 20 patents and authored books including Too Good To Fail.

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Assertion Supported

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.”

Cliff Gross Jan 25, 2018 ▶ 11:20 915 He Hunts Down University IP and Figures Out How to Commercialize at Scale

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Assertion Not checkable as stated

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.”

Cliff Gross Jan 25, 2018 ▶ 5:56 915 He Hunts Down University IP and Figures Out How to Commercialize at Scale

Disclosure

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.”

Cliff Gross Jan 25, 2018 ▶ 2:41 915 He Hunts Down University IP and Figures Out How to Commercialize at Scale

Disclosure

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.”

Cliff Gross Jan 25, 2018 ▶ 3:57 915 He Hunts Down University IP and Figures Out How to Commercialize at Scale

Disclosure

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.”

Cliff Gross Jan 25, 2018 ▶ 4:21 915 He Hunts Down University IP and Figures Out How to Commercialize at Scale

Assertion Not yet assessed · timeframe Jan 2018

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.”

Cliff Gross Jan 25, 2018 ▶ 8:41 915 He Hunts Down University IP and Figures Out How to Commercialize at Scale

Assertion Supported

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.”

Cliff Gross Jan 25, 2018 ▶ 11:20 915 He Hunts Down University IP and Figures Out How to Commercialize at Scale

Disclosure

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…”

Cliff Gross Jan 25, 2018 ▶ 1:40 915 He Hunts Down University IP and Figures Out How to Commercialize at Scale

Assertion Supported

Gross: Tekcapital acquired UCF optics patents for under $1M

“Less than a million. And it's the university of central Florida.”

Cliff Gross Jan 25, 2018 ▶ 7:52 915 He Hunts Down University IP and Figures Out How to Commercialize at Scale

Disclosure

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.”

Cliff Gross Jan 25, 2018 ▶ 12:47 915 He Hunts Down University IP and Figures Out How to Commercialize at Scale

Appearances (1)

Episode	Date	Speaking time
915 He Hunts Down University IP and Figures Out How to Commercialize at Scale	Jan 25, 2018	8m

Cliff Gross

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