Tag: spinout

22 APR

Google car spin-out says Uber is involved in a ‘cover up’ and is ‘hiding a device’

Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg via Getty Images Uber’s star engineer Anthony Levandowski was “enticed” to copy valuable technology from Google and is now involved in a “cover up” to hide a device based on that technology, according to a new legal filing by Google’s self-driving car unit Waymo. The device in question is a Lidar unit, the […]

31 MAR

Alphabet’s investment arm GV backs SpyBiotech, an Oxford University spinout working on ‘next-generation’ vaccines

SpyBiotech, a life sciences spinout from the U.K.’s Oxford University, has raised £4 million ($ 5 million) in seed funding from Oxford Sciences Innovation (OSI) and Alphabet’s investment arm GV (formerly Google Ventures). As traditional approaches to developing vaccines are typically time-consuming, and not always effective, SpyBiotech is working on what it calls a “proprietary protein […]