Dilafor, a portfolio company of Karolinska Development, has attracted investors led by its manufacturing partner Opocrin to take its overall funding to more than $8.3m.

Martelet will stand down as chief executive, allowing CFO Ian Postlethwaite to marry the two roles as NetScientific looks to continue cutting costs.

The health of academic startup activity in the state has been affirmed by a five-year university entrepreneurship index published by the Illinois Science and Technology Coalition.

ETH Zurich spinout RosieReality has attracted $2.2m in seed capital led by Redalpine, with a contribution from existing backer Akatsuki.

Walmart has stepped up to acquire SkyDeck alumnus advertisement platform Polymorph Labs after the latter had raised $10.5m in funding.

Co-founded by a former UChicago research director, surgery workflow software provider Explorer Surgical has increased its total funding to $9m.

Baidu Ventures has helped close a $31m series A round for Harvard-founded Sherlock Biosciences just over a month after the spinout launched with an initial $17.5m tranche.

University-industry collaboration matchmaking portal In-Part has added $1.2m from investors including Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund to $516,000 of seed capital procured in 2016.

Set up to identify fake news and social media bot accounts, Astroscreen has attracted UCL Technology Fund for its first funding round.

UAVC has put capital into newly launched UA spinout EARDG Photonics, which integrates technology licensed from another spinout, TIPD, by the same co-founders.