Vanessa Wood, a professor at ETH Zurich specialised in electrical engineering, will now also supervise the university's approach to knowledge transfer and corporate relations.

Exits included Helmholtz-founded contract research business Inamed and Hannover Medical School chip cytometry spinout Zellkraftwerk.

The existing investor has chipped into the anti-fraud technology producer’s $36.3m round that lifted its overall funding to more than $60m.

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

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

Satt Erganeo-backed Open Agora offers software to run opinion surveys within enterprise software such as Slack.

Alsa Ventures is targeting a $150m final close for its inaugural biotherapeutics fund, which has already backed university-linked companies.

The ETH Zurich software security spinout had raised at least $5.2m before it was purchased by Snyk yesterday for an undisclosed sum.

Santander's newly-spun out venture capital arm Mouro Capital has joined the investor consortium of Europe-focused startup loans provider Uncapped.

Sandy Sholl, the co-founder and chairwoman of MadaLuxe, is head of SLS Journey as its new corporate venturing unit.