VCU Ventures has launched with a founders-friendly licensing policy and will look to provide programs that benefit the university’s spinout ecosystem.

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The MIT spinout has raised $19.4m from unnamed backers, and the plant-based ingredient developer will use the cash to expand its production capacity.

Liquidia Technologies, a spinout from UNC Chapel Hill, has filed to raise up to $57.5m in its initial public offering.

The Tel Aviv University-backed accelerator, formed in partnership with the Israel Security Agency, has welcomed its first seven participants.

Natural language processing technology developer Bloomsbury AI has joined Facebook for up to $30m, enabling UCL Technology Fund to exit.

Campbell Walshe has returned to Melbourne Accelerator Program as director, having co-founded a participant and been an entrepreneur-in-residence.

Leiden thrombosis therapy spinout VarmX had raised an undisclosed seed sum in June 2017 and converted debt to equity in its latest round.