Stanford University’s StartX Fund has joined Bain Capital Ventures, Ironfire Ventures and SharesPost for blockchain technology developer CoinAlpha’s opening round.

BMW and Baidu are among the investors in sensor technology developer Lunewave's seed round, which will go towards building autonomous vehicle sensors based on the Luneburg principle.

University of Manchester’s UMI3 has joined Frontier IP and Ingenza as a shareholder in newly-founded Plymouth antibiotics spinout Amprologix.

Founded by a Northwestern student, cold-brew coffee vendor BrewBike has added the university's NUSeeds fund and angel investors to its seed consortium.

Stanford-StartX Fund-backed microbial diagnostics and wellness product developer UBiome has raised $83m in series C funding.

Research institute DFKI has launched a spinout to deliver robotics and AI-based technologies originating from its Bremen-based Robotics Innovation Centre.

Multi-university TTO Satt Sud-Est has licensed patents to GenOmnis for an RNA-based bioinformatics technology that will assess the pathogenicity of biological organisms.

Principia Biopharma, whose drug discovery platform is based on research at UCSF, has completed a $122m initial public offering after underwriters exercised their greenshoe option.

The MIT-affiliated Engine Fund has achieved a final close of more than $205m, above its initial target of $150m.