Paderborn’s incubation and innovation centre became active one year ago to help drive startup formation and entrepreneurial activity.

RXQ has been backed by Ohio Innovation Fund as it prepares to build beyond its current location at the Ohio University Innovation Center.

UNC Chapel Hill plans to build a life science incubator by 2019 in a bid to convince more faculty spinouts to remain based at the university.

Azafaros has licensed intellectual property from Leiden University and Amsterdam UMC's Academic Medical Centre to target lysosomal storage disorders.

UMC Utrecht spinout Gadeta has partnered cancer drug developer Kite to drive development of its T-cell therapy, allowing Kite to purchase equity from Gadeta's existing shareholders.

Voice analytics software producer Cogito has mobilised investors including Salesforce and Goldman Sachs to bring its total funding to more than $63m.

Stanford spinout Toma Biosciences has created a genomics testing platform for classifying cancerous tumours according to their genetic mutations.

Flame Centre for Entrepreneurship and Innovation has launched with plans for a five-month accelerator that will support between 10 and 15 startups.

The fund, affiliated with IIM Ahmedabad, has raised approximately $50m for its first close two years after first being announced.