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Angel investor networks from the Triangle\u2019s major research universities will make their first joint investment in a medical products firm this week.<\/p>\n

So said Joe Sinsheimer, managing director of NCSU\u2019s Wolfpack Investor Network (WIN) in the opening mini-keynote, on angel investment in academia, at the North Carolina Biotechnology Center\u2019s Ag Biotech Entrepreneurial Showcase in Durham.<\/p>\n

Sinsheimer said WIN\u2019s $420,000 part of the medical products company investment closes Friday, May 12. It represents \u201ca new level of group cooperation,\u201d among North Carolina State University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Duke University, he said.<\/p>\n

The WIN program at NCSU is only six months old and includes alumni, parents of NCSU students, and friends of the university.<\/p>\n

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NCSU has a long history of ag biotech development in animal feed, sweet potatoes, milk and more, Sinsheimer noted. \u201cPart of the motivation of what we are doing is to connect on-campus talent with off-campus talent. \u201c<\/p>\n

Universities are getting into the investment business because of pressures to innovate faster, said Sinsheimer. \u201cIn this economy we\u2019re part of, universities can\u2019t stand still. There is more entrepreneurial talent on campus than ever and we need to help them succeed.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sinshemier said NCSU\u2019s chancellor told him that half of the people the university tries to recruit ask, \u201cWhat are you going to do to help me with my startup?\u201d<\/p>\n

One of the goals of the university angel networks is \u201ctrying to work together,\u201d Sinshemier said. \u201cWe don\u2019t have a great history of that.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said WIN is on pace to look at 120 opportunities a year, 25 percent from on campus and the other 75 percent from the university\u2019s alumni base.<\/p>\n

WIN currently has 52 investors and a goal of reaching 150. Sinsheimer has a meeting Friday with a large group of potential investors on the Raleigh campus.<\/p>\n

In a second mini keynote, Jason Ornstein provided an update on SynShark, a Greensboro company developing a technology to grow and extract a valuable shark oil from tobacco plants. The Biotech Center has bootstrapped the company with loan support.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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