private ownership industry venture capital founded 2011 headquarters philadelphia pennsylvania united states website www.osageuniversitypartners.com osage university partners oup is a venture capital fund specializing in university spinouts . oup has partnerships with 50 affiliated universities national labs and research institutions . the fund invests in all stages of development including seed early and late stage . general partners include robert adelson bill harrington 1 marc singer and founding partner louis berneman . oup is part of osage partners 2 a family of investment funds with diversified investment strategies including osage venture partners . 3 contents 1 investment strategy 2 participation rights 3 affiliated institutions 4 portfolio companies 5 see also 6 references 7 external links investment strategy edit osage university partners invests across all sectors of university commercialization including information technology energy materials and life science . the fund invests across all stages including seed early and late . oup closed its first fund in 2011 a 100 million fund from diverse institutional investors . 4 the fund promotes the venture and entrepreneurship ecosystems around universities typically co investing with other leading venture capital firms . participation rights edit through their licensing activities universities and research institutions generally have the right a participation right to invest in their own spin outs . historically few universities or research institutions have exercised such rights . oup utilizes these rights to invest in university spinouts and in return universities and research institutions share in the fund s profits . 5 oup seeks to make investments by primarily exercising the participation rights of its partner universities and if no formal participation right exists to participate as a co investor on behalf of the university or research institution . 6 affiliated institutions edit albert einstein college of medicine arizona state university ben gurion university of the negev brigham young university brown university caltech carnegie mellon the children s hospital of philadelphia cold spring harbor laboratory columbia university cornell university drexel university duke university emory university fred hutchinson cancer center georgia tech harvard university the hebrew university of jerusalem international computer science institute johns hopkins university lawrence berkeley national lab lawrence livermore national laboratory mars innovation nc state md anderson cancer center michigan state university mount sinai national university of singapore new york university nc state university northwestern university oklahoma medical research foundation oregon health & science university parc penn state university princeton university rice university rockefeller university rutgers university salk institute for biological studies sanford burnham tel aviv university temple university the scripps research institute tufts university tulane university uc berkeley uc davis uc irvine uc los angeles uc san diego uc san francisco uc santa barbara university of chicago university of colorado university of delaware university of florida university of illinois university of iowa university of maryland university of michigan university of minnesota university of new mexico university of north carolina university of notre dame university of pennsylvania university of pittsburgh university of south florida university of southern california university of texas system university of toronto university of utah university of virginia university of washington university of waterloo utah state university virginia tech yeda weizmann institute of science portfolio companies edit portfolio companies include aerie pharmaceuticals agtc algorithmia ambiq micro aptinyx atterocor avid radiopharmaceuticals blade therapeutics body labs cancer guide capella bioscience cardioxyl cell design labs clarifai cleave biosciences clinipace worldwide corridor pharmaceuticals effector therapeutics enlibrium evolv technologies faraday gevo nasdaq gevo guardant health iconic therapeutics immune design infinio jibo kolltan pharmaceuticals kura oncology kymeta 7 liquid light luxtera menlo security merganser biotech mc10 millendo therapeutics mirna therapeutics otonomy 8 paracosm picwell pmv pharma psikick precision biosciences receptos nasdaq rcpt ribon therapeutics seismos technologies selecta biosciences sera prognostics skytree spero therapeutics solarbridge technologies streetlight data tangent medical urjanet virdante pharmaceuticals and voxel8 see also edit entrepreneurship venture capital startup company technology transfer references edit william harrington joins osage university partners as managing partner . yahoo finance . jan 5 2012 . osage partners . osage partners . osage venture partners . osage venture partners . it came from their lab . but how to take it to the bank . ny times . march 12 2011 . osage university partners expanding its novel venture firm model . xconomy . retrieved february 28 2013 . investment criteria . osage university partners . http online.wsj.com article pr co 20130709 904182.html mod googlenews wsj http www.fiercebiotech.com story otonomy banks 46m pivotal studies treat ear conditions 2013 09 04 external links edit official website osage partners v t e private equity and venture capital investment firms investment strategy venture growth mezzanine secondaries leveraged buyout history history of private equity and venture capital early history of private equity private equity in the 1980s private equity in the 1990s private equity in the 2000s investors angel investor corporate venture capital commercial bank crowdfunding institutional investor insurance company investment bank endowment family office fund of funds high net worth individual merchant bank pension fund sovereign wealth fund private equity firms venture capital firms 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