The food allergy medicine spinout from UChicago has been backed by the institution itself in a $3.5m seed round.

FluroSat has also received funding from cotton industry-focused public-private partnership CRDC for its remote crop imaging platform.

Purdue University-linked companies operating the in renewable energy, sustainable transport and oncology sectors are among those to have secured $20,000 in initial funding.

Bot detection platform ShieldSquare has raised an undisclosed sum in a round co-led by corporate venturing unit RPG Ventures.

CorrosionRadar is gearing up to trial sensors for identifying deep corrosion in oil and gas pipeline.

UNC-Chapel Hill spinout Falcon Therapeutics has raised a seed round from unnamed backers.