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In 2001, the William J. von Liebig Foundation awarded a $10 million gift to UCSD's Jacobs School of Engineering to launch the William J. von Liebig Center, the first commercialization facility of its kind in the country. The Center's mission is to inspire entrepreneurism and catalyze commercialization of UCSD inventions through grants, education and business mentoring. Commercializing early stage technologies is a very difficult and long process. However, in six years, the von Liebig Center has achieved remarkable results: it has received more than 200 proposals and invested more than $3.8M in seed grants and advisory services to over 70 projects. These projects have resulted in more than 22 license agreements and helped launch 16 start-up companies. In turn, those start-ups have attracted more than $78 million in subsequent capital from the private sector and created over 130 new jobs. The Center mentors a broad range of projects in areas including medical devices/diagnostics, softw
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Investment Focus
- Stages
- seed
- Sectors
- edtech
- Location
- La Jolla, US
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