The UZH Life Sciences Fund (LSF), founded in 2016, provides early financing for UZH spin-offs in life sciences, biotech and medtech with business ideas based on intellectual property resulting from research done at UZH. The aim is to accelerate the development process of spin-offs in the early phase of their life cycle (when fund raising can be long and/or difficult), and thus accelerate the transfer of UZH research findings into practice, which ultimately benefits patients and the public at large.