Global University Venturing

The software-focused incubator will invest pre-seed funding to form new businesses from UW-Madison concepts, and will unveil its first startup in spring 2021.

Keith Hoffman, former senior vice-president of business development and tech transfer at Lundquist Institute, has joined UCLA spinout Athos Therapeutics.

Ysios Capital has supplied a series A extension that follows an initial tranche co-led by Kurma Partners and Sunstone Life Science Ventures in November 2020.

Based on Aalto University and VTT research, IQM Quantum Computers has lured investors including Tencent to bring its equity and grant funding total to $83.9m.

Julius-Maximilians-University of Würzburg's cancer immunotherapy developer Catalym plans to move its lead asset into the clinic next month.

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

UPenn executed 643 commercial agreements in the 2019-20 fiscal year and scored a big exit with the $248m listing of Passage Bio.

University of Bristol-linked Graphcore is reportedly seeking $200m at a $2bn-plus valuation, in a deal that would bring its total to $660m.

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

Stanford-StartX Fund-backed Onfleet has now raised $20m to date after securing series A funding to grow its last-mile delivery business.

OSI joined investors including Aioi Nissay Dowa Insurance to bring the University of Oxford enterprise machine learning spinout's overall funding to $24.4m.