Based on research conducted at Caltech and Nasa, Virtualitics has now raised more than $11m in funding for its VR data visualisation and analytics platform.

Sensor technology developer Chirp will become a wholly-owned TDK subsidiary, providing exits to University of California and UC Berkeley’s Skydeck accelerator.

Maher Khaled, who managed intellectual property arising from medical research at University of Queensland, has joined Preveceutical Medical as director of international operations.

The Medical Research Commercialisation Fund has supplied series A capital to Okogen as the company partners University of Sydney to develop a treatment for viral conjunctivitis.

SK Telecom has committed $65m to ID Quantique, a quantum cryptography technology spinout from University of Geneva, adding to $2m it had previously provided.

The Center for Innovation, Commercialization and Entrepreneurship at University of Alaska Fairbanks has welcomed an initial cohort of five spinouts.

Paul Santerre, professor at the Faculty of Dentistry, has been named Baxter chair of health technology and commercialisation.