Chalmers-backed Swedish Algae Factory hopes to commercialise silicon materials made from a subtype of algae with qualities favourable to trapping light and blocking UV rays.

CUNY-born digital olfaction technology developer MouSensor will receive funding and expertise from nanoelectronics institute Imec's investment fund.

Ken Porter and Stan Smith have joined UMCP’s office of technology ommercialisation as director and venture investment manager respectively.

University of Iowa's medical diagnostics spinout IDx has collected $33m from investors including Optum, bringing the company’s total to $48m.

State-wide innovation hubs under the banner of Michigan Translational Research and Commercialization will receive money from the Michigan Strategic Fund.

Founded out of Université catholique de Louvain and Wageningen University research, A-Mansia Biotech hopes to commercialise nutritional supplements for patients at heightened cardio-metabolic risk.

Oxford University Innovation expects to form 10 spinouts each year from an initiative for impact-led businesses.

QuayChain has been formed by Allied Minds to commercialise an IoT hub for industrial sites such as airports, warehouses and transport hubs.

PSL Innovation Fund has backed Gleamer, an automated radiology image analysis platform co-founded by a former École normale supérieure research student.

HyperLight has been spun out from Harvard University's OTD to manufacture superior modulators for fibre-optic telecommunications networks.