Novartis has bought Vedere Bio, a retinal disease therapy spinout of UC Berkeley also exploiting UPenn research, to expand its gene medicine capabilities.

Blue Venture Fund will exit the cancer diagnostics technology startup in a purchase by another of its investors, Exact Sciences, that could reach $2.15bn.

Exact Sciences has shelled out $410m to buy University of Oxford early cancer test company Base Genomics, incorporated in July 2019.

Exact Sciences is set to acquire Johns Hopkins spinout Thrive Earlier Detection for up to $2.15bn in cash and stock, including $1.7bn upfront.

Cybersecurity consulting services provider SEC Consult has agreed to be purchased in a deal that will allow Swisscom Ventures to exit.

University of Toronto's FPGA programming platform developer LegUp Computing has been acquired in a deal that allowed Intel Capital to exit.

Aalto's bone lengthening treatment spinout Synoste has been snapped up after raising funding from investors including Evonik and Mectalent.

LMU-founded antibody reagent supplier ChromoTek has been picked up after raising funding from Bayern Kapital and HTGF in 2010.

Evonik and Mectalent have exited the bone implant developer in an acquisition by Globus Medical that follows nearly $12m in funding.

Intel Capital has exited LegUp Computing, a provider of field-programmable gate array programming technology, in an acquisition by Microchip.