Steady is the assessment that comes to mind, rather than remarkable, when probing the year-on-year direction of corporate venture capital investment in university spinouts.

WyoVentures will allow University of Wyoming to manage VC funds while also acting as a conduit to startups from the local ecosystem.

The intermediary close of PSL's deep tech-oriented fund comes after additional contributions from the EIF, Bpifrance and Vilmorin & Cie.

UnityPoint Health has launched a corporate venturing arm, UnityPoint Health Ventures Innovation Fund, that will invest in areas such as digital health and medical devices.

Shiva Dustdar and Peter Cowley joined Mark Wilson to talk about whether adoption of the hybrid fund model is increasing in the corporate venturing space, particularity in the healthcare sector.

The vehicle is the fifth fund to be established by Salesforce under the Trailblazer banner and follows entities focusing on Canada, Japan and Australia.

With hundreds of university venture funds, internal commercialisation vehicles and third-party firms the reality in today’s innovation ecosystem, selecting the nominees and the winner for Investment Unit of the Year is increasingly challenging.

One only has to look at the investors in the €117m ($135m) final close for Imec.xpand, the venture fund of nano-electronics research institute Imec, to see why it is worthy of GUV’s Fundraising of the Year award.

Medtronic, LivaNova and Baxter Healthcare have helped commit $53.5m for the third medical device-based fund to be raised under the MD Start moniker.

Seraphim Capital’s Space Camp Accelerator, which counts a number of corporates among its investors, has picked out its third cohort of space technology innovators.