Cash Capital co-led a series A for Vision Medicals, co-founded by faculty at the Yunnan Province Key Laboratory for Gene Editing.

ETH Zurich’s Versantis picked up series B funding from Zürcher Kantonalbank among other returning investors to bring its total to $20.6m.

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

Alexandria LaunchLabs will launch in early 2021 as Stanford University looks to bolster its life sciences ecosystem and provide more flexible workspace options for its researchers.

University of Cambridge-founded autoimmune disease developer PredictImmune has expanded its IP base with first refusal rights on prognostics for systemic lupus erythematosus.

Alicia Greated, Heriot-Watt University’s director of research and enterprise has been named chief executive of Innovate UK’s Knowledge Transfer Network.

ItaTech has committed an initial $33m to the fund, which will invest in spinouts emerging out of 19 partner universities and research institutes across Italy.

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

Oxford spinout Semmle has been acquired by GitHub, a subsidiary of Microsoft, providing exits to investors including Accel that had supplied $31m in funding.

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