Smile Invest and Innovation Industries Fund have co-led a $37m first tranche for TUe spinout Effect Photonics’ series C round.

Forbion and Gilde Healthcare have co-led a $53m series B round for Dundee spinout Amphista, which is working on targeted protein degradation technology.

Existing corporate investor Vorwerk Ventures contributed to an $11.9m round that will support the expansion of Rebike's e-bike rental service.

Tencent and Gilead Sciences took part in a round that will fund clinical trials for three of Vaccitech's vaccine product candidates.

Ben Davey has departed from corporate venturing activities at Barclays for an executive position at a special purpose acquisition company.

The spinout’s technology was fundamental to Oxford’s covid vaccine, prompting OSI and Future Planet Capital to back a $168m round.

Every day, Global University Venturing rounds up the smaller investments from across the university innovation ecosystem in its deal net.

Baxter Healthcare was among the investors in the $65m first close of a private placement the biosimilar drug developer has pushed to $100m.

The Harju Elekter-backed ultracapacitor producer will develop automated production technology with funding secured from the German government.

GV and Salesforce Ventures joined existing investor Citi in a $45m round for the financial application development platform.