Join Unicircles to rapidly earn consulting fees or raise research funding from investors and corporates.
Run short consulting projects, join an advisory board, or post a R&D project to collaborate with market leading businesses. Meet your peers in business and academia to discuss research collaboration and entrepreneurial opportunities. We facilitate research & innovation seminars with a global reach.
"Neuronal vesicle fusion mechanisms in vitro"
"environmental engineering"
"Working on developing machine learning methods and Big Data approaches to design of reaction pathways for circular economy"
"supply chain strategy"
"supply chain optimization"
"corporate governance processes"
"Biotechnology and chemical engineering"
"behavioural Development"
"Organization of healthcare delivery"
"Piezoelectric MEMS"
"My research focuses on understanding the geometric features of data mathematically and on developing machine learning methods that utilize this knowledge."
"macrofinance"
"Observational analyses of stellar and planetary genesis; in situ characterization of the Earth's atmosphere and biogeochemical cycles; laser spectroscopic and ab initio characterization of weakly bonded clusters and reactive intermediates"
"Cambridge-Oxford-Harvard educated multidisciplinary clinical scientist"
"Secretary and Research Assistant to President (European) at China Europe International Business School (CEIBS)"
"biomedical engineering"
"Focused on innovative analytical techniques using mid-infrared spectroscopy for industrial, environmental, and medical sensing. Currently developing a novel sensor for continuous, near real-time monitoring of brain chemistry in trauma patients."
"I have expertise across diverse areas, including biomolecular engineering, chemical biology, synthetic biology, analytical chemistry, biochemistry, and molecular and cell biology, reflecting a highly multi-disciplinary approach."
"Sustainable agricultural with a focus on environmental microbiology"
"MicroRNAs "
"Robotics"
"Drug Metabolism"
"magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) "
"organizational learning"
Join over 500 startups and numerous Global Fortune 500 companies who have chosen to work with Unicircles, to directly access the next generation of research and technology.
Get the chance to collaborate with leading research teams spanning over 200 academic circles across 100 leading Universities. Leverage this engagement to enhance and accelerate internal R&D and digital transformation projects, through the targeted hiring of advanced expertise, acquisition of leading edge IP, or investments in early stage research ventures.
"Portfolio manager with 30+ years of equity investing experience, now specializing in late-stage, pre-IPO equity"
"Interested in growth stage companies"
"Focused on backing early and growth stage technology companies for over 20 years."
"I'm looking for promising new start-ups to partner with."
"Primarily focused in cloud infrastructure, SaaS, and computational biotech"
"Investment analysis generalist"
"A multi-stage investor, spending most of my time focused on early-stage investments in consumer and fintech companies. "
"25+ years of successful track record in sales, delivery and P&L"
"Investor in software and communications infrastructure, occasionally venturing beyond. Focus on exceptional entrepreneurs tapping into significant opportunities with technological or business model innovations for a strategic advantage. Stage agnostic."
"CEO Crossbow Therapeutics"
"Entrepreneur and investor - excited about the coming end-to-end digital economies built on top of the new emerging Internet."
"Chief Technical officer for Natural Rubber - Chief Operational Officer for Natural Rubber assets Michelin"
"Chief Technology Officer Nutek Austria"
"Travel, Logistics, and Transport Infrastructure practice"
"Experienced Head of Analytics/Data Science, skilled in driving business impact through Machine Learning/AI. Passionate about overcoming trust deficits and guiding teams with a focus on technical depth, trust, and customer empathy."
"Interested in ibp, planning, supplychain, decisionmaking, and sustainability"
"Tech Operations Sr Associate, VP Wells Fargo. Interested in animal Welfare, children, education, health, human rights , disaster and humanitarian relief"
"Interested in banking, innovation, techforgood, financialwellbeing, and behavioraleconomics"
"Tire Performance Evaluation Engineer The Goodyear Company. Interested in cars, racing, and testing"
"Visionary and goal-oriented CIO with demonstrated experience in planning, developing and implementing cutting edge IT & network solutions to address Telco’s business opportunities."
"Senior Manager, Program Management - CTO/NRC Prototyping Nokia"
"CIO UBSWealth Management UK & Jersey UBS Wealth Management"
"Assistant General Manager (Dev) - Advanced Engineering TATA Motors Limited"
"Enterprise Agile and Software Engineering in to DevOps and Delivery Excellence globally"
"More than 20 years of management and consulting experience in India and abroad"
Join 1000+ successful founders who are keen to learn from their academic and business peers. Connect with potential co-founders, investors, employees, and customers. And give back to the community with learnings for the next generation of entrepreneurs.
"Interested in ibp, planning, supplychain, decisionmaking, and sustainability"
"Holds a variety of roles in propulsion, stage operations, and production. Graduated in Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering from MIT."
"Start-Up Advisor, Investor & CEO of Channel Program - Maryland Emerging Tech Company of the Year. Interested in channel, gotomarket, technology, channelprogram, and channelpartners"
"#1 in Sales Engagement"
"Team-builder and business leader, with proven ability to recruit, motivate, develop talent to deliver results that exceed expectations. History of rapid promotion through organizations"
"Modernising the way business happens locally"
"Revenue, Operations, Consumer and Product marketing, Product and Engineering, Finance, Talent, Growth"
"Financial services"
"Delivering Revolut, the financial super app"
"Angel investor, startup advisor, enterprise software, B2B, cloud, climate impact, ESG, circular economy"
Join hundreds of Angel Investors, Family Offices, and Corporates that joined Unicircles to connect with over 1000 startups.
As a financial investor, connect with leading academic experts. Invest in startups capitalizing on this research, and support your existing portfolio companies with academic expertise. As a corporate investor, do not miss out on leading edge technology. Invest in early stage ventures, acquire them, or purchase their IP.
"Entrepreneur + investor. I believe values + people are the foundation for building great companies. "
"Specialized in corporate and securities law, financings, venture capital, mergers and acquisitions, licensing, commercial law, international transactions, life sciences law, trademarks, and intellectual property litigation."
"CEO Crossbow Therapeutics"
"Interested in enterprise software investment"
"Entrepreneur and investor - excited about the coming end-to-end digital economies built on top of the new emerging Internet."
"Portfolio manager with 30+ years of equity investing experience, now specializing in late-stage, pre-IPO equity"
"Early stage venture and climate change"
"Investor"
"Focused on backing early and growth stage technology companies for over 20 years."
"Business adviser with expertise in asset management, wealth management, relationship management, finance and accounting;"
"I enjoy a fast paced environment, have a high energy level, and always looking for a challenge or learning something new."
"I'm looking for promising new start-ups to partner with."
"Primarily focused in cloud infrastructure, SaaS, and computational biotech"
"A multi-stage investor, spending most of my time focused on early-stage investments in consumer and fintech companies. "
"Investment analysis generalist"
"Investor in software and communications infrastructure, occasionally venturing beyond. Focus on exceptional entrepreneurs tapping into significant opportunities with technological or business model innovations for a strategic advantage. Stage agnostic."
"leading investor in Cloud and AI"
"Interested in growth stage companies"
Since launching at a few universities in the US, Great Britain, and Switzerland in 2015, Unicircles has expanded to over 100 leading global academic institutions. We aim to connect experts in academia with clients in industry, both to help with funding research and to help companies innovate. We ensure that the vast innovation potential in both the young talent and leading experts at these schools is unlocked.
We focus on monetizing academic expertise through both project work and startup funding. Ranging from hourly projects, fixed price projects, pre-seed financing, equity investments, and sales of intellectual property.
By putting our collective minds together, we can solve the biggest problems facing our most fragile ecosystems and societies around the globe. Unlocking the unparalleled opportunity in GenAI, while mitigating the unknowable risks from climate change.
Our ambassadors and mentors help make this happen by facilitating global connections across academia and business. Join us to help companies innovate, startups grow, universities finance research, and to help connect graduate students with industry.
Your success as ambassador will be rewarded with a stake in Unicircles. Please click below for more information.
Many of the first startups in Silicon Valley were started from informal, ad hoc relationships between researchers at Stanford and alumni in Business or Venture Capital. Early stage incubators did not exist; they were perhaps a sparkle in the eye of some the young titans of contemporary high-tech. Even on campus it was clear that most research and startup collaboration happened within each school; the connection between disciplines was mostly missing.
During the late nineties we, the Unicircles founding team, were enrolled at Stanford, Oxford, and other Universities around the globe. At the time we witnessed first-hand the lack of inter-disciplinary partnering on new research and innovation topics. We independently started targeted research and entrepreneurship programs between engineering, business, and medical sciences schools to bring prospective entrepeneurs together. For example "Stanford Interact", a program launched together with BASES, the Business Association for Stanford Engineering Students. The Interact dinner series connected prospective founders from across campus, inspiring late night discussions about technology "disintermediation", from which numerous successful ventures were started.
We believe that even today, 25 years later, global collaboration between universities and industry can be improved. This is especially the case outside of Silicon Valley, where the more informal networks with established entrepreneurs and early stage angel investors - with a “Unicorn” track-record - are less developed. In Europe we see a wealth of untapped expertise, despite many attempts by the EU to incubate more competition vis-a-vis the Valley.
Unicircles was founded in 2012 in Zurich and San Francisco, with the ambition to become a “digital silk road” between Asia, Europe and the Americas. During the last decade we built the platform on a foundation of proprietary AI, Data Management, and networking capabilities. Our founding team includes long time entrepreneurs from the San Francisco Bay Area - one of us working closely with the first angel investor in SUN Microsystems, also credited with coining the name Silicon Valley (Ralph Vaerst, look it up 😀). Building on our entrepreneurial experience spanning 5 decades and 3 continents, we are truly honored to help accelerate global research collaboration.
Unicircles in 2024 is a global platform for applied research powered by Generative AI, combining a marketplace for expertise and funding in one place. We aim to continuously improve communication across innovation hubs and in doing so increase purpose driven innovation around the globe. Our members leverage the network to move away from annual conferences to day-to-day targeted collaboration. Especially in the post pandemic world we believe that innovators cannot afford to miss the rapid interaction in dedicated online research circles.
At Unicircles our mission is to support sustainable growth, building on common global values. We believe in facilitating rational discourse between business and academic leaders, crossing both national and political boundaries. Especially in the current era of disruption of natural ecosystems and social safety nets it is important that we improve the quality and frequency of communication across global research hubs. There are big societal gains from more effective collaboration; and as the rational and compassionate species it is our collective responsibility to take action. We use proprietary AI algorithms to connect the dots between academic innovation and business requirements, and ask our Unicircles members to contribute the necessary expertise and investment to each circle. We hope you will join our network today. Sign up now and receive premium membership free for one year (limited time offer). Please find more information on our history and platform below.
We hope that you will support our mission. Please sign up now to take advantage of our limited time offer for a free annual license. We continue to enhance the marketplace experience and always appreciate your feedback. If you would like to join as a Unicircles ambassador in return for equity please let us know after the quick sign up process.
Sincere regards,
The Unicircles founding team
