Global University Venturing

SoftBank has led a $103m series B round for the IoT network and hub developer, a spinout of Stanford, that made up one of two rounds it has raised.

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

University Hospital Tübingen's liver disease treatment spinout HepaRegenix has raised $21.6m in all following a series B round that will fund trials of its first candidate.

Harvard-founded industrial robot supplier Soft Robotics welcomed corporates Yamaha, Honeywell, Fanuc and Tekfen for its series B round.

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

OSI's chief executive Charles Conn stepped down from the fund last November after only eight months, leaving CFO Jim Wilkinson in the post on an interim basis.

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

March Capital has led a round that boosted the overall funding for the Stanford-backed enterprise data management platform to $75m.

AI2's new pre-seed fund will help create 12 new spinouts in fields such as deep learning, computer vision and natural language processing.

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati has invested in genomic sequencing amplification business Bioskryb, co-founded by Stanford faculty member Charles Gawad.

Stanford-StartX's Zinier took its overall funding to $120m in a round that included returning investor Qualcomm Ventures, with the cash to go to international growth and product development.