Autonomous logistics technology developer Boxbot, which has now raised $9m altogether, was co-founded by graduates from UC Berkeley and Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Uniseed and MRCF have become founding investors in University of Melbourne's precision medicine spinout Certa Therapeutics.

UC Riverside has partnered the Know Hub Chile partnership to help Chile conduct better research and tech transfer.

The prescription monitoring device developer and Purdue affiliate previously disclosed approximately $1.8m in funding through securities filings.

GV is reportedly leading a funding round for Lime, a bike-sharing platform also backed by NGP Capital and the Stanford-StartX fund.

MiAlgae was formed by a University of Edinburgh alumnus to commercialise microalgae-based animal feed supplements sourced from treated wastewater.

Ripple will pour $50m into R&D at 17 academic institutions, including institutions in the US, UK, India and Brazil.

Stanford-Start X Fund-backed Jetlore has been acquired by Paypal, which will integrate the retail analytics platform into its own marketing and analytics package.