A collaborative research fund established by Imperial and TUM has made its public debut with at least 12 projects in its portfolio focused on areas including healthcare, energy and industry.

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

KU Leuven's autoimmune disease therapy developer Imcyse, which is targeting type 1 diabetes, has raised close to $39m in equity and debt financing in its latest effort.

University at Buffalo has spun out Surgino to tackle the risk of hernias following surgical stitching, with a tool intended to improve measurements of tension in the stitched tissues.

Northern Accelerator, an investment program which supports spinouts from Durham, Newcastle, Northumbria and Sunderland universities, plans to raise $125m for a venture fund.

British University Spinout Investment Fund hopes to complete its fundraising efforts by 2020 to back businesses based on university research.

DTU-owned PreSeed Ventures will seek to raise an independent fund following the wind-down of government support, and has appointed Jesper Juhl Hansen as CFO.

South Africa's academic tech transfer sector will be supported by a $10.2m vehicle backed by the $96m SA SME Fund.

The "Spin-Off Universität St. Gallen" label has been granted to 122 spinouts over the past two years, with 22 of those remaining based in the city.

Clean Earth Tech will commercialise a dust suppressant polymer invented by Minkyu Kim at UA's College of Engineering.