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Yale Ventures

Yale University / Yale School of Medicine and Yale New Haven Health

Editorially verified · Last reviewed August 30, 2026

Intelligence summary

Program at a Glance

Program mandate
Yale Ventures is Yale University's innovation and commercialization organization, serving as the technology transfer office and the hub for faculty and student venture creation. It licenses Yale technologies, supports research spinouts, and provides translational funding and mentorship to move inventions toward market.
Organizational model
Academic · Nonprofit
Location
New Haven, Connecticut
Program types
Technology transferVenture studioEntrepreneurshipInnovation center
Commercialization pathways
LicenseSpinoutInvestment
Focus areas
Clinical
Public scale or maturity signals

Yale Ventures is Yale University's innovation and commercialization organization, serving as the technology transfer office and the hub for faculty and student venture creation. It licenses Yale technologies, supports research spinouts, and provides translational funding and mentorship to move inventions toward market. Yale Ventures maintains a large portfolio of technologies available for licensing and runs programming to connect Yale inventors with investors and industry. Much of its portfolio is biomedical, drawing on Yale School of Medicine research.

Documented successes: 2,400 Yale patents and more than 1,900 Yale technologies available for licensing; 200+ active faculty research spinouts plus 710 student and alumni startups; $6 billion in venture funding raised by Yale spinouts over the last seven years; $6.5 million in annual translational faculty funding and 1,200 annual mentorship hours

Official engagement route
Program website ↗Health system website ↗
Last reviewed
August 30, 2026

Mandate and remit

What This Program Does

Yale Ventures is Yale University's innovation and commercialization organization, serving as the technology transfer office and the hub for faculty and student venture creation. It licenses Yale technologies, supports research spinouts, and provides translational funding and mentorship to move inventions toward market. Yale Ventures maintains a large portfolio of technologies available for licensing and runs programming to connect Yale inventors with investors and industry. Much of its portfolio is biomedical, drawing on Yale School of Medicine research.

Areas of Focus

Clinical

Commercialization Pathways

These routes appear in the program's sourced public record.

Venture Investment and Company Creation

Fund or office: Yale Ventures

Yale Ventures is Yale University's innovation and commercialization organization, serving as the technology transfer office and the hub for faculty and student venture creation. It licenses Yale technologies, supports research spinouts, and provides translational funding and mentorship to move inventions toward market. Yale Ventures maintains a large portfolio of technologies available for licensing and runs programming to connect Yale inventors with investors and industry. Much of its portfolio is biomedical, drawing on Yale School of Medicine research.

Publicly Reported Outcomes

  • Documented successes

    2,400 Yale patents and more than 1,900 Yale technologies available for licensing; 200+ active faculty research spinouts plus 710 student and alumni startups; $6 billion in venture funding raised by Yale spinouts over the last seven years; $6.5 million in annual translational faculty funding and 1,200 annual mentorship hours

Leadership and Structure

Organizational home: Yale Ventures, Yale University / Yale School of Medicine and Yale New Haven Health

  • Josh GeballeManaging Director, Yale Ventures

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Yale New Haven Health / Yale School of Medicine (Yale Ventures)

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Sources and Updates

Reviewed August 30, 2026. External source links open in a new tab.

  1. Yale Ventures official source ventures.yale.edu. Accessed August 30, 2026.
  2. Yale Ventures source 2 ventures.yale.edu. Accessed August 30, 2026.
  3. Yale Ventures source 3 ventures.yale.edu. Accessed August 30, 2026.
  4. Yale Ventures source 4 ventures.yale.edu. Accessed August 30, 2026.

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