HTGF has backed a series A round for Cardior Pharmaceuticals, a heart failure-focused spinout of Hannover Medical School.

University College Cork, Teagasc, Cork Institute of Technology and Institute of Technology Tralee have joined forces to launch a consortium with a combined research revenue of $160m.

Global University Venturing carried out its first survey of early stage participants with the majority of the respondents coming from Europe and North America.

Bruker has acquired Luxendo, a spinout of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory that closed an $8.4m series A round in January.

The dark data processing technology developer, based on Stanford research, has been bought by Apple after raising about $20m from investors including In-Q-Tel.

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Based on research conducted at Sydney University, Abyss Solutions is working on robotics technology to detect damage to in-water infrastructure.