Parkwalk Advisors has returned from earlier rounds to help drive the UEA spinout's bid for additional markets for its image augmentation technology.

IP Group has committed a total of $6.6m to a series A round for Enterprise Therapeutics, which had previously attracted capital from Touchstone Innovations.

John Flavin joined University of Chicago in 2013 to head its commercialisation arm and innovation hub Polsky Center, but will now become chief financial officer at Endotronix.

Frontier IP now owns 27.5% of Plymouth's Fieldwork Robotics and has agreed to lend extra development and engineering expertise to the soft robotic arm manufacturer.

The Ceres Agritech Knowledge Exchange has secured $28m and will exploit research from the universities of Cambridge, East Anglia, Hertfordshire, Lincoln and Reading.