OxValue.AI is a deep tech spin-off from Oxford University. It utilizes data and AI technology to evaluate the monetary value of technology or technology-rich startup companies, to achieve its core goals of supporting innovation and SMEs and facilitating technology transfer to developing countries. The company has positioned itself as a pioneer and a valuable player in the tech ecosystem to facilitate international technology transfer and diffusion.

With tools created to foster global development, it helps public and private capital prioritize technologies with the greatest transformative potential. OxValue.AI’s objective methods make valuation easier. The results can be used to transcend boundaries of border, language, and institution to accelerate the transfer of technology for the benefit of all.

Core to the OxValue.AI methodology is the VEST (Valuation of Early-Stage Technology) Tool, which leverages a number of variables including patent data, developed within the Technology and Management Centre for Development (TMCD) at the Department for International Development of the University of Oxford.

A novel valuation framework, it derives from a decade of research pioneered at the University of Oxford. It has been infused with more than 10 years of big data from observations of the trajectory of real-world technological innovation. Cutting-edge techniques from artificial intelligence such as machine learning continue to inform and hone the model. Backtesting yields 90% accuracy when comparing predictions with subsequently observed valuations.

By engaging unique cutting-edge technologies to determine the financial value of technology (before or post-patent award), OxValue.AI delivers a game-changing approach that provides an objective, accurate, affordable, and accessible decision-making tool for both the investor and inventor communities.

Professor Chas Bountra, Pro-Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford says, “We have massive challenges in healthcare, climate change, we need big solutions from entrepreneurs. We also need collaboration from a global scale across disciplines... we need much better tools to assess the value of impact. This new initiative will help to address many of these questions.... it is so timely; it is so important…”.

OxValue.AI’s framework is an important tool to promote the most cost-effective development of digital goods and services. It can assist in focusing discovery efforts by assessing the potential for new technologies by analyzing their utility to society at large.

OxValue.AI presents its widely accepted and accredited tool to help its clients value technology in a manner that is fair and transparent to both parties. The tool provides a useful new approach to the appraisal of technology, and an important guide for decision-making in technology investment, transfer, and commercialization. It enables startups, innovation teams, and investors to evaluate their technologies and identify investment-worthy projects.

OxValue.AI can aid in investment and acquisition and is particularly useful for suppliers and business partners in economically deprived zones within developed countries, or across developing countries. The company can help investors and research analysts in Venture Capital (VC), Private Equity (PE), and Investment Banks (IB) to value technology in a manner that is fair and transparent to both parties and help Commercial Banks conduct the pledge of intellectual property.

OxValue.AI can aid budgeting, and facilitate technology transfer in International Organisations through accurate and transparent estimations of the underlying technologies. Helping IP management companies and patent offices identify high-value patents. OxValue.AI can aid governments and Academic Institutions in GDP accounting and knowledge valuation by using a widely accepted and accredited tool that can improve the estimation of GDP by including the value of knowledge production. It also helps to identify high-growth small firms or innovation projects with high potential that need support.

Offering objective valuation tools that facilitate global technology transfer and support innovation, OxValue.AI is paving the way to a future enriched by transformative technologies and economic growth.