Based on Oxford and Sao Paulo State University research, Osler Diagnostics is reportedly set to secure $38m to add to the $2.6m it raised in 2016.

MIT retail analytics spinout Celect has now raised a total of $25m, having received $15m in an NGP Partners-led round.

Co-founded by an Indiana University graduate, customer behaviour analytics software developer Zio has secured funding from two of the university’s venture funds.

Trinity College Dublin spinout Danalto has been backed by the spinout-focused Atlantic Bridge University Bridge Fund and Enterprise Ireland.

Osage University Partners was among the investors to supply seed funding for robotic technology developer Elementary Robotics.

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Immunotherapy spinout Annexon Biosciences collected funding from Novartis Venture Fund in a series C round that brought its total funding to $154m.

MRL Ventures Fund and Roche Fund have taken part in the intracellular drug developer's series A, which is commercialising research by Prof Dehua Pei at OSU.

Purdue University-backed Elevate Purdue Foundry Fund has picked seven university-linked businesses to share a total of $200,000 in funding.

Synspective has been backed by a University of Tokyo VC vehicle in its bid to launch a constellation of 25 small Earth observation satellites powered by synthetic aperture radar.