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.
"Extreme electrochemistry"
"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"
"colloidal particles"
"waste management"
"Secretary and Research Assistant to President (European) at China Europe International Business School (CEIBS)"
"psychological and neural mechanisms"
"Urban Water Management "
"Economics and Management of Innovation"
"Sustainable agricultural with a focus on environmental microbiology"
"Applied Economics"
"Biotechnology and chemical engineering"
"Probability"
"My research focuses on understanding the geometric features of data mathematically and on developing machine learning methods that utilize this knowledge."
"Work and Organizational Psychology"
"Robotics"
"geographic information science"
"sustainable energy"
"Working on developing machine learning methods and Big Data approaches to design of reaction pathways for circular economy"
"Nanometallurgy"
"Integrative Risk Management and Economics"
"Cambridge-Oxford-Harvard educated multidisciplinary clinical scientist"
"Neuronal vesicle fusion mechanisms in vitro"
"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."
"Algorithms and Data Structures"
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.
"I'm looking for promising new start-ups to partner with."
"Primarily focused in cloud infrastructure, SaaS, and computational biotech"
"Investment analysis generalist"
"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."
"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.
"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"
"leading investor in Cloud and AI"
"Investor"
"I enjoy a fast paced environment, have a high energy level, and always looking for a challenge or learning something new."
"Primarily focused in cloud infrastructure, SaaS, and computational biotech"
"Entrepreneur and investor - excited about the coming end-to-end digital economies built on top of the new emerging Internet."
"Early stage venture and climate change"
"I'm looking for promising new start-ups to partner with."
"Interested in enterprise software investment"
"Portfolio manager with 30+ years of equity investing experience, now specializing in late-stage, pre-IPO equity"
"Investment analysis generalist"
"Entrepreneur + investor. I believe values + people are the foundation for building great companies. "
"Business adviser with expertise in asset management, wealth management, relationship management, finance and accounting;"
"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."
"Focused on backing early and growth stage technology companies for over 20 years."
"Interested in growth stage companies"
"A multi-stage investor, spending most of my time focused on early-stage investments in consumer and fintech 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.
Our mission is to accelerate collaboration between industry and academia. Much of our startup experience in Silicon Valley was driven by informal relationships with researchers at Stanford, based on personal connections and ad-hoc meetings, mainly at the School of Engineering. We found that even on campus there was limited interaction between departments and schools. We were in the founding officers team of BASES, the Business Association of Stanford Engineering Students, which started to improve interaction between engineering students and graduate students at other schools. As part of BASES we started INTERACT, an event series between e.g. Computer Science and the Stanford GSB, from which many startups were founded in the nineties and aughts.
We are highly confident that today's collaboration between academia and business can be greatly improved. Enhancing interaction in terms of discovery, the legal framework, financial transactions, and overall trust between the parties involved. Especially outside of Silicon Valley the informal networks between experienced entrepreneurs, angels, and lawyers are nascent. We see an order of magnitude opportunity to unlock deep research IP in Europe and Asia. All across Europe we see a wealth of untapped academic expertise, despite many attempts by the EU to kick-start a European version of the Valley.
Unicircles was founded in Europe, and intends to function as a digital "silk road" between Asia, Europe and the Americas. Our founding team includes several long time entrepreneurs from the San Francisco Bay Area - one of which working closely with the angel investor who coined the term Silicon Valley (Ralph Vaerst). Building on our combined track record spanning 5 decades and three continents, we aimed to capture and automate the key success factors for effective research collaboration. After our founding in 2012 we grew Unicircles.com from a social network for academia into today's global marketplace, incorporating the “KSFs” linked to research discovery, networking, standardized legal frameworks, and trusted financial transactions.
The Unicircles mission is to grow with a strong sense of purpose. We believe that there are enormous societal gains to be made by enabling more rational discourse between business and academia, crossing both national and political boundaries. Especially in the current era of disruption of industry supply chains, natural ecosystems, social safety nets, and the global climate. We believe it is paramount that we improve the quality and frequency of communication across the global research and entrepreneurial hubs.
Unicircles has grown into a global platform for applied research, combining a marketplace for expertise and funding in one place. The platform spans research consulting, business innovation advisory, IP transactions, and pre-seed / angel funding. We aim to radically improve communication across innovation hubs and in doing so increase purpose driven innovation around the globe. Our members leverage the network by extending the interaction during conferences and events to day-to-day collaboration. Especially in the post COVID world we believe that most innovators cannot afford to miss this more frequent interaction.
We hope that you will support our dual mission for more rational discourse and accelerated, purpose driven innovation. Please sign up now to take advantage of our time limited 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
