Power grid management technology developer Synaptec spun out of University of Strathclyde in 2014 and has now won support from the corporate-backed Foresight Williams Technology EIS Fund.

Seattle Children’s EHR management software publisher MDMetrix has now raised $4m in all following a seed round backed by the investment arm of Washington Research Foundation.

Kaust-founded crop growing technology developer Red Sea Farms secured the capital from Kaust's Innovation Fund and the latter's strategic co-investment partner Research Products Development Company.

The additional cash will allow University of Nottingham biomedicine spinout Locate Bio to advance two internal programs and support its collaborations with external partners.

The board at Flinders University-founded medical avatar software platform Clevertar has agreed to pump in funding to clear the spinout's outstanding liabilities to creditors including the university.

NextStep Robotics, which last raised funding in February 2018, is commercialising research from two University of Maryland campuses and the Baltimore Veterans Affairs Motor Performance Laboratory.

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

Osage University Partners has invested in LunaPBC, the public benefit corporation responsible for operating the community-owned LunaDNA genetic and health data collection platform.

Sales productivity software platform Ciara has won the backing of TUM-allied venture firm UVC Partners in a round that will support continued development of its software.

TUM automated legal analysis spinout Rfrnz has secured backing from Unternehmertum-operated Initiative for Industrial Innovations, HTGF and unnamed additional investors.