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Life insurance platform Ethos has emerged from stealth with backing from investors including Stanford University as it looks to drive business growth and product development.

StrideBio is based on research conducted at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and University of Florida.

Gary Plourde has left his role at private intellectual property office Janus Patents to become University of Bridgeport's director tech transfer and venture creation.

MIT spinout and automated statistics technology developer Empirical Systems had raised $2.5m from investors including Hyperplane Venture Capital and Brain Robotics Capital.

Trinity College Dublin spinout Volograms has secured the University Bridge Fund as an investor for its VR and AR hologram creation engine.

ETH Zurich and University of Zurich spinout InSphero has now raised $35m and will commercialise its organ-on-a-chip technology.