The deadline for Roche’s $4.3bn purchase of CHOP's gene therapy developer Spark has been postponed until April 2020 amid regulatory scrutiny and pending lawsuits.

National Bank of Canada has taken part in a $31.5m series B round for Sensibill, a mobile banking technology producer already backed by OpenText.

Siemens’ Next47 unit has led the series B round, which will enable 15Five to accelerate business growth, bolster sales and marketing efforts and drive technology development.

Belong.Life, the operator of a cancer-focused online support network, will use the Iqvia-led round to expand its Belong Patient Engagement Platform.

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

G. Don Taylor has been named interim vice-president for research and innovation following Theresa Mayer’s departure to Purdue University.

Funded by University of Virginia and its government partners, the Catalyst Accelerator Program hopes to progress 20 early-stage business proposals by spring 2021.

The machine learning-powered biological research startup has increased its overall funding to $20.8m following an investment from Google's Gradient Ventures unit.

Managing partner Tak Sato talks about insurer MS&AD’s corporate venturing unit located in Silicon Valley.

Comcast Ventures has exited television advertising analytics platform Data Plus Math in a reported $150m purchase by LiveRamp.