Imperial College London has announced its first physical presence in the US, with a new hub located in San Francisco.

Imperial College London has announced its first physical presence in the US, with a new hub located in San Francisco.

The new San Francisco hub will be launched in October to bring Imperial’s world leading science and tech research closer to the centre of global venture capital.

Imperial’s presence in the Bay Area is part of the Imperial Global strategy which has seen a hub open in Singapore, and new hubs planned in Ghana and India.

The San Francisco hub will officially launch at Imperial’s first major Silicon Valley symposium this Autumn focussing on how the application of emerging technologies can be a force for good in the world.

Recently ranked 2nd in the world in the QS World University Rankings, Imperial has long standing connections with California, enabling talent in London and the US to collaborate and improve their networks.

Academics from Imperial, Stanford and UCSF are working to develop and translate radical technologies in AI-enabled healthcare and science. Engineers from Imperial and UC Berkeley are co-developing innovative and sustainable ways to provide the materials the world needs for the energy transition.

The new hub will make it even easier for innovators partnering on both sides of the Atlantic to fund and scale their research and maximise Imperial’s potential as a force for good in the world.

Imperial is a champion of deep tech entrepreneurship based on a bedrock of world-leading convergence science and technological innovation in London. Staff and students have leveraged this research to create start-ups in Quantum (PsiQuantum), Clean Tech (Ceres Power), AI (Magic Pony Technology), Battery tech (Nexeon) and renewable materials (Notpla). By launching a hub in San Francisco, Imperial will increase the opportunities for their spinouts and accelerate their success.

There will also be opportunities for further student exchanges between California and London as part of Imperial’s San Francisco growth. For students with global ambitions, the creation of the new hub - alongside new hubs in Singapore, Ghana and India, will mean more opportunities to partner and exchange ideas on the world stage.

Professor Hugh Brady, President of Imperial College London, said:  “Imperial’s San Francisco Hub will connect two of the world’s most vibrant innovation ecosystems - showcasing Imperial’s education portfolio to new audiences, strengthening our academic and industry partnerships, engaging our fantastic alumni, encouraging exchange of top talent and linking our founders to new sources of venture capital.

"The Hub will bring even more of Imperial’s work to Silicon Valley and more of Silicon Valley to our work – ultimately accelerating advances in science and technology to tackle global grand challenges."

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