Ghent University-founded texture streaming technology creator Graphine has been picked up by Unity Technologies, providing an exit to research institute Imec’s iStart accelerator.

KU Leuven has generated 60 spinouts since 2000, the most of any Flemish region university, while digital-focused research centre IMinds topped the bill for Flemish strategic institutes.

The industry-focused VC vehicle is targeting $10m to make seed investments in companies including spinouts across technologies including robotics, internet-of-things and electronics.

Based on Stanford research, Surrozen is working on regenerative treatments for a wide range of conditions, with a first focus on liver disease.

Sherlock Biosciences will develop molecular diagnostics tools co-developed by researchers at Harvard University and Broad Institute, including Crispr inventor Feng Zhang.

The series A funding comes after predictive data analytics companies MoBagel went through a resources-only edition of the SkyDeck accelerator last year.

Penguin Innovations has spun out of Purdue’s College of Pharmacy with a virtual cleanroom training program for pharmacy students.

Venture Partners at CU Boulder's efforts provided a significant boost for the national economy, generating nearly $721m of economic income for tech-transfer related activity.

University of Dundee intelligent drug design spinout Exscientia has struck a business deal with Celgene after raising series B funding from the corporate in January.

Ahren Innovation Capital has been confirmed as an investor in a round that brought University of Bristol-linked machine intelligence technology developer Graphcore’s total to $310m.