The university’s Enterprise Innovation Centre will house spinouts and act as a space for the university’s entrepreneurs to learn and collaborate with academics, researchers and businesses.

University of Edinburgh’s Old College Capital has returned to back energy storage developer Sunamp to take the company’s total to $8.8m.

Cambridge Enterprise-backed Fluidic Analytics' third funding round will help fund the launch of its first microfluidics-based protein analysis machine.

Roel Bulthuis, senior vice-president and managing director at M Ventures, has moved on to Inkef Capital as head of healthcare and is succeeded by Jasper Bos at the corporate venture capital unit.

Serge Taborin has joined Capita two months after stepping down from his position as group digital innovation director at Aviva.

Existing investor Barclays has returned for a $13m series B round raised by fintech platform Form3.

Financial services firm Convoy Global Holdings is considering a $19m investment in Tandem Bank a year and a half after the latter’s $43m deal with Sanpower fell through.

The insurer has taken on the anchor investor role in Mundi Ventures' Alma Mundi Insurtech Fund, supplying $28.3m.

Axa's corporate venturing unit has led the temp agency's series B round, which included existing investors Acton, Redalpine and Atlantic Labs.

Illumina Ventures and BNP Paribas Développement have backed a series A round which will help the biotechnology company expand sales and launch a new product.