Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory will work with Autobahn Labs to propel more early-stage discovery programmes into spinouts.

The pregnancy biomarker test provider plans to float on the Nasdaq Global Market having raised $220m in funding from investors including LabCorp and Anthem.

Ohio State University has again thrown its weight behind Rev1 Ventures, whose latest fund also attracted University of Dayton and multiple corporates.

PayPal and Carta were among the LPs that have backed the early-stage venture firm’s first fund, which will invest in e-commerce technology startups.

Online vehicle retailer Motorway, restaurant ordering software provider Popmenu and meat and fish e-commerce platform Licious have all raised between $65m and $68m.

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

Osei Van Horne, a founding managing director of technology at Wells Fargo Strategic Capital, has joined JP Morgan’s Private Capital unit as managing partner and global head of sustainable growth equity investing.

Access Industries has led a financing round for the mental health services provider at a $1.2bn valuation, with the funding set to support an expansion in its services.

Mayo Clinic and Alexandria Venture Investments contributed to a $55m extension that boosted the molecular drug developer's overall funding to $143m.

A range of new and existing backers have added $45m to ViaCyte’s series D round, which now stands at more than $115m.