Urban Infrastructure Partner, which provides bicycle sharing services for municipal clients in Norway and Scotland, raised the cash from Møller Mobility and Selvaag Invest.

The cell biology technology developer, based on UC Berkeley research, took its total funding to almost $220m in a Nikon-led round that included fellow strategic backer Varian.

Mercia Technologies has returned to back Locate Bio's pursuit of orthopaedic therapies based on research at University of Nottingham.

Datum Invest has led a $15.3m round for educational game platform Kahoot, which is the result of research at Norwegian University of Technology and Science.

University of Bristol Enterprise Fund II has backed antibiotic diagnostics developer Vitamica, which spun out of the university’s school of physics in January 2018.

Fosun RZ Capital supplied $5m for trucking services provider LetsTransport, which reportedly already counts GMO, Flex, CBC Group and Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance as backers.

Michigan materials spinout Ecovia Renewables has secured capital from the university's Mints fund to take its total to $1.6m.

Based on research at MIT, Accion Systems has received corporate backing from Boeing to develop more nimble and efficient propulsion for spacecraft.

University of Maryland-founded artificial lung developer Breethe is targeting $5m for its latest round after previously raising approximately $7.8m.

Cybersecurity technology developer Garrison has received $5m from IP Group after being backed by Touchstone in 2015 and 2017.