Q&A: Kickstart's Gavin Christensen
Gavin Christensen is in charge of a new program at vSpring Capital, which seeks to nudge universities into getting more involved in the commercialization of their technologies. The carrot is that vSpring will cut the universities in on the carried interest (i.e., investment profits). The effort is called Kickstart Fund, and is seeking to raise about $10 million for between 20 and 25 academic spinouts from Utah and New Mexico. I caught up with Christensen to ask him a few questions:
4 March 2009•2 mins read
