Talaris has raised $150m in an initial public offering almost two decades after being spun out of University of Louisville as Regenerx.

Evotec has partnered Bristol-Myers Squibb to launch another Bridge programme, this time focusing on the universities of Birmingham, Dundee, Edinburgh and Nottingham.

UW spinout TwinStrand has completed a $50m series B round led by Section 32, while Alexandria Venture Investments invested a third time.

American Electric Power, Chevron and Equinor all participated in a round that increased the Stanford company’s total funding to $228m.

GV, Mass General Brigham Ventures and Lonza helped Affinia Therapeutics raise $110m to commercialise work originating at Harvard.

CU Boulder’s solid-state battery provider pulled in funding through a series B round co-led by potential customers BMW and Ford.

Every day, Global University Venturing rounds up the smaller investments from across the university innovation ecosystem in its deal net.

The UPMC-backed cancer biotherapeutics developer priced its shares in the middle of their range in its initial public offering.

Mogrify has collected $17m in a second series A tranche led by Parkwalk Advisors to bring the round’s total to $33m.

Ahren Innovation Capital has helped bring Zoe’s overall financing to $53m by leading a series B round for the personalised nutrition service.