What We Do

OSEM has three main roles:

1. Strategic: identifying opportunities to optimise the return on the University's investment and provide professional assistance to companies as they develop
2. Tactical: supporting companies by dealing with immediate or short-term issues such as funding or access to other support networks
3. Procedural: dealing with documentation relating to consents, fund-raising and exits

In fulfilling this role, OSEM calls on its own expertise, its extensive networks of contacts in the financial, commercial and scientific worlds and its own investment fund which it manages on behalf of the University of Oxford. Our portfolio of 54 companies is currently valued at around £40 million (May 2012).

We are keen to speak to investors who have an interest in what we do.

OSEM is a unit within the University with a direct reporting line to the Director of Finance.

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Recent Presentations

OSEM Presentation 2012 (PDF 3.91 MB)

Paul Drayson "Being an Entrepreneur" - OSEM Conference 20/09/10 (PDF 753 KB)

David Bott, "Profit through Philanthropy" - OSEM Conference 14/09/09 (PDF 4.32MB)

ISE's presentation by Chris Shelley - OSEM Conference 14/09/09 (PDF 0.49MB)

Oxford Gene Technology's presentation by Dr. John Anson - OSEM Conference 14/09/09 (PDF 2.69MB)

Oxitec's presentation by Hadyn Parry - OSEM Conference 14/09/09 (PDF 1.60MB)