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ETH Zurich's portfolio attracted a record $649m in funding last year, and the university also spawned more businesses year-on-year.

Today’s deal net captures the smaller investments from across the university innovation ecosystem over the past two weeks.

Trifo, developer of a cleaning-based surveillance system, increased its total funding to $26m in a round that included Yidu Cloud.

Football helmet producer Vicis, a University of Washington spinout, has succumbed to cash pressures despite previously raising $85m in funding.

Chinese Academy of Sciences-owned Cash Capital was among the investors in precision cancer screening business MyGene Diagnostics' second funding round.

The University of Oxford DNA processing spinout tapped a consortium of unnamed investors in a round which also includes $106m in secondary funding.

Bic Camera, Brother Industries, Hi-Lex, Nac, TIS, Tokai and Towa were among the backers that supplied $32.3m for TUS spinout Innophys' series C funding.

MIT's Taris, which is developing a drug delivery system for bladder diseases, has been purchased by Johnson & Johnson.

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Axel Johnson's Novax unit has backed Uppsala University materials spinout Disruptive Materials, which last raised funding in 2016.

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