Multi-asset class portfolio management platform Solovis has secured $8m from a consortium that included existing backer Northwestern University.

Osage University Partners has contributed to a second funding round for SiFive, which produces semiconductor technology developed by UC Berkeley researchers.

Allied Minds-backed satellite communication technology developer BridgeSat has closed a $6m series A round.

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British Columbia University has signed a licensing agreement with Commonsense for a treatment of asthma and other allergic conditions.

Boehringer Ingelheim Venture Fund has co-led a $21.8m round for ImCheck Therapeutics, established with the support of Satt Sud-Est.

Virolock Technologies was spun out of Penn State to commercialise a portable device that boosts early detection of viral infections.

Cambridge Enterprise and Cambridge Innovation Capital both participated in the funding round, which is based on research at the Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

Sosei will pay $45m for a 25% stake in RNA therapy developer Mina Therapeutics and could buy the NTNU spinout outright for about $180m more.