Cambridge Enterprise, the commercialisation arm of Cambridge University, has licensed a thermocouple cable technology to specialty wire and cable manufacturer TE Wire & Cable. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. The technology enables applications for thermocouples, an electrical device used to measure temperature, that require longer use at higher temperate.
Cycle.Land, a marketplace for bicycle sharing backed by Oxford University’s tech transfer office Oxford University Innovation, has raised approximately £82,000 ($100,000) in a crowdfunding campaign with a £100,000 target, according to CrowdfundInsider. Oxford University Innovation had supported the company in March 2016, shortly before it launched its product in Oxford.
The Zell Lurie Founders Fund of the Samuel Zell & Robert H. Lurie Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies at Michigan University has invested $100,000 in US-based footwear producer Sneakers by Jordana. The cash injection will enable the company to speed up the design, production and sale of products.
Causeway Sensors, a diagnostics spinout of Queen’s University Belfast, has raised £50,000 from Kernel Capital Growth Fund, the Irish Times wrote on Thursday. The company has created nano-sized sensing chips that detect low levels of proteins and their fluctuations. The technology has applications in early-stage cancer detection, but also other diseases as well as food and drug production. Kernel Capital is managed by financial services firm Bank of Ireland.
