Vanderbilt University was among the participants in a $75.9m round for Monzo that cut the mobile bank's valuation from more than $2.5bn to under $1.6bn.

Grand Decade and existing investor Boehringer Ingelheim Venture Fund helped supply $38.2m for the mRNA immunotherapy developer and Vrije Universiteit Brussel spinout.

Uniseed has entered a co-investment pact with BioCurate, a drug discovery fund for early-stage University of Melbourne and Monash University research.

Founded by University of Washington faculty, Proprio has raised series A funding to commercialise its multi-camera surgical imaging system.

Chalmers Ventures portfolio company Biofrigas has set out plans for a $1.7m IPO but has already issued around $1.2m to existing connections.

The carmaker has followed up a $100m investment two years ago with a pledge to provide up to $200m for the Stanford-originated solid-state battery developer.

The protein degradation-focused drug developer, a spinout from Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, received $150m in series B funding and $20m in venture debt.

Vivek Goel will move into a coronavirus response-oriented advisory role having been University of Toronto vice-president for research, innovation and strategic initiatives since 2015.

Wandelbots, which came out of Technical University of Dresden research, secured the funding as it publicly launched its robotics training software tool.

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