Polycera was spun out from Water Planet, itself a spinout of UCLA, and was established to commercialise polymer membranes for water filtration.

Sensome develops micro-sensor systems for medical devices which exploit impedance together with machine learning algorithms to reliably identify biological tissues.

Cambridge Enterprise has returned to back Silicon Microgravity, which builds on collaborative research between the university and BP.

Autonomous logistics technology developer Boxbot, which has now raised $9m altogether, was co-founded by graduates from UC Berkeley and Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Ceres Nanosciences has added a $5.5m extension from investors including the LVG Seed Fund to help continue development of its diagnostics test for Lyme disease.

Cambridge Touch Technologies has added $5.5m in series A1 funding to its coffers thanks to investors including Cambridge Enterprise.

The Oxford spinout has lured funding from OSI and the university itself as it aims to meet performance milestones for its peptide drug discovery programs.