Initiatives
GU Ventures manage several strategic projects to develop and strengthen our own core business as well as the overall environement around us and our companies. Our projects focus on areas such as sustainability, digitalisation, internationalization, industry collaboration and quality improvment. Furthermore we are highly focused on strenghening our domain expertise within specific areas of interest, as presented below.
KRAFT
"Kraft" gathers forces to strengthen the supply of capital to start-up and scale-up companies in our region in collaboration with investors, industry and ecosystem actors. our region will become more well-known for anyone who is looking for opportunities as well as finding resources to start and scale their company.
GoWest now!
Whithin the “kraft” project, one of the moST visible activities is the “Gowest” event, AN annual venture capital forum for investors, start-ups and scale-ups.
join us here on the 7-8th of FebrUARY in Gothenburg!
KBE pre-incubation within the Master's programme in Knowledge Based Entrepreneurship at the University of Gothenburg
The Master’s program in Entrepreneurship at the School of Business, Economics and Law teach the students to develop and evaluate business ideas and models. The program cooperates with GU Ventures to provide the students with reality-based commercial projects and help them try out their own entrepreneurial ideas. We call this pre-incubation.
STAR Impact - Sustainable growth and impact measurements
Since 2013 GU Ventures run STAR, a project focused on sustainable growth in western Sweden. The main objective is to work with a strong focus on sustainability and to contribute to a resilient society through social inclusion and reduced climate change.
“WINC”
brings together eight incubators in western Sweden, aiming to improve efficiency and create more opportunities for collaboration to make new businesses to grow. For more info, go to: westswedishincubators.se
Energo
we strengthen energy companies together with our partners, Johanneberg Science Park and Chalmers Ventures. supported by: The Energy Agency
Join #greenUps
Within the energo initiative and collaboration, we have joined forces with Chalmers Ventures and the #greenups network, so both johanneberg science park and gu ventures were invited to welcome new companies and work together with chalmers ventures and their companies.
do you want to join the #greenUps family?
Click here to apply now
OligoNova
OligoNova, a center for Research of therapeutic oligonucleotides, lead by prof. claes gustafsson, have given us the task to analyse and develop new functions for the center: OligoNova.org
Kompetens+
We work together with Some of The eco-system players in our region to replace talent that want to find new ways, lead by Business Region Gothenburg.
Lift-off: Steneby
within “Mötesplats Steneby” we work together with the local community and partners with culture-driven sustainable social development, such as: