Global University Venturing

Retail brand reputation management business Soci has completed its series C round, having previously received series A capital from Stanford's Daper Fund.

Cloud-based audio transcription service Otter.ai won the backing of Duke University Innovation Fund and NTT Docomo Ventures in its latest round.

The University of Bristol-led incubator now has more than 80 portfolio companies, which posted a combined turnover of $77m during 2019.

University Ventures portfolio company Galvanize, which provides software engineering and data science courses, has been bought by online education platform K12 after raising $96m in funding.

Yale-founded P2 Science, which produces chemicals from clean feedstocks like vegetable oil, secured funding from investors including Elm Street Ventures to take its total to about $23.3m.

University of Washington’s François Baneyx has sealed the job of vice-provost for innovation having administered the same duties as caretaker since February last year.

The Stanford University spinout has begun offering its smart customer service software to the wider market after securing new capital.

The university boosted tech transfer revenue to $20.7m on the back of five exits while signing 223 new licensing agreements last year.

Verily has taken part in an oversubscribed series B round that will fund the UC Berkeley spinout's expansion from diagnostics to gene editing and drug development.

GUV’s annual review shows the ecosystem is in outstanding shape despite of all the doom and gloom in many financial papers.

Is the glass half full or half empty for UK research commercialisation, asks Mike Rees in a lecture for National Centre for Universities and Business.