Global University Venturing

University of Mississippi will pilot employing counselling from the local Small Business Development Center to assist faculty and staff innovators.

University of Pennsylvania-linked Passage Bio issued 4.6 million more shares than originally planned to raise $216m, up more than 70% on its $125m original target.

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

Takeda has bought UW spinout PvP Biologics, three years after acquiring an option to buy it in return for $35m in financing.

Nottingham-founded Excellerate Biosciences has been bought by Oxford's spinout OMass Therapeutics, which unveiled a series A extension last week.

Cambridge University Ventures SEIS Fund will back businesses from the Cambridge ecosystem, including those founded by students and recent graduates.

GV and Intel Capital returned to reinvest in the computing technology provider, which was co-founded by Stanford professors and has now raised more than $450m altogether.

Inventec Appliances Corp has contributed to a round that will enable USF-founded Molekule to further develop and scale its air purification technology.

MPM Oncology Innovations Fund will invest half of its corpus in Dana-Farber's oncology pipeline, backing 15 cancer-related startups altogether.

Johns Hopkins-founded Ready Robotics secured funding from a quartet of venture investors to drive the scale-up of its industrial automation software business.

The deep tech-focused TTO invested $7.7m in its technology pipeline and more than doubled spinout generation year-on-year.