Motus, which backs spinouts from a range of universities and research institutes, has secured cash from unnamed investors for its Smart World Innovation Fund.

Scottish Investment Bank and Innovate UK were among those backing University of Strathclyde brain cancer diagnosis spinout ClinSpec Diagnostics.

University of Hawaii System’s UH Ventures will participate in a fund of undisclosed size in support of an aquaculture-focused accelerator that will welcome its inaugural cohort this autumn.

The 12-week medtech and digital health accelerator is also being supported by medical care provider Hartford HealthCare and will onboard its first ten startups in June 2019.

Sohaib Mir has earned a promotion to principal having joined Cambridge Innovation Capital to provide business expertise in the life science space in 2014.

KU Leuven has retained pole position on Reuters’ Top 100 index of innovative European universities for the fourth year running, while Germany's academic sector grabbed the most places of any country.

The CIC-backed clinical genomics platform operator took its series B round to $30.1m following a $17.1m extension that will fund the development of automation and statistical analysis functionality.

VTT and the EIF will anchor Voima Ventures’ fund, which is aiming to raise $56.1m to invest in deep tech businesses based on science and research from the Nordics and Baltics.

Johns Hopkins University has invested in medical transport booking platform Roundtrip, a graduate of JHU-backed accelerator M-1 Ventures.

Cirtemo, which incorporated University of South Carolina-born MagAssemble, has been acquired by Thorlabs for an unspecified amount.