Global University Venturing

TU Darmstadt spinout Akasol had floated on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange in 2018 and has now agreed to an acquisition by BorgWarner.

Ensoma has emerged with $70m in series A financing to advance research from Fred Hutchinson and University of Washington.

NexImmune priced shares at $17 to raise $110m in an upsized offering, enabling Amgen and Pfizer to exit the Johns Hopkins University spinout.

Hyperconnect is being acquired for nearly $1.73bn by the Match Group, giving an exit to SoftBank, which was one of the early investors in the company.

The vehicle charging technology developer, spun out of UC Irvine, has now raised $191m in total.

The gas-to-hydrogen technology developer bagged $11.5m in funding to commercialise technology developer at UC Santa Barbara.

We remember George Shultz, former University of Chicago Booth School of Business professor and dean.

A round up of the week's new fund and incbuator launches.

Today's deal net contains news from RAW Labs, Neuropain Therapeutics and Swajal.

The past week's M&A exits included Genetirate, DataFleets and SightGlass Vision.

UC Davis's probiotics spinout secured an undisclosed amount as Bow Capital backed the first close of a series D round with a $55m target.