Alberta-founded renewable fuel producer Forge Hydrocarbons hopes its lipids-based fuels will provide a cleaner alternative to petrol.

Each Friday the Global Corporate Venturing Deal Net rounds up the week’s smaller deals and tracks the emerging companies accessing corporate funds.

University of Twente-founded MyLife Technologies will commercialise a microneedle-based dermal patch for administering therapeutic compounds.

Loyalty Prime has been backed by the VC affiliate of Technical University of Munich’s Unternehmertum as it builds the international profile of its loyalty scheme management software.

University of Lisbon-founded biotherapeutics developer is targeting infectious, metabolic and intestinal conditions, and has collected $2.8m from a fund run by Seventure Partners.

University of Edinburgh’s Old College Capital has returned to back energy storage developer Sunamp to take the company’s total to $8.8m.

Each Friday the Global Corporate Venturing Deal Net rounds up the week’s smaller deals and tracks the emerging companies accessing corporate funds.

JHU-backed fitness platform operator BurnAlong obtained the cash from investors including Brown Advisory to take its total to $4.7m.

Uniseed has upped its investment in probiotic drink maker Perkii after leading the Queensland spinout’s first $3m round in 2016.

Rostock-founded 3D printer maker Aim3D has secured money from investors including Brose ahead of the launch of its first product in spring 2019.