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Global University Venturing

UTokyo IPC sets up First Round

First Round's inaugural cohort includes a manga comic translation tool developer and a company working on synthetic options for creating salmon.


Oct 11, 2019

IM Therapeutics seizes $10m series A

University of Colorado-founded IM Therapeutics has received $10m from investors including the university's Healthcare Innovation Fund to advance a treatment for type 1 diabetes.

Oct 11, 2019

Lilium looks to Tencent for $500m round

Existing investor Tencent is in talks as part of a round TUM's flying car developer reportedly aims to close at between $400m and $500m.

Oct 11, 2019

Neighborly leaves the municipal precinct

Stanford-backed micro public finance platform Neighborly has paused the payroll in a concerted attempt to restructure the business and avert insolvency.

Oct 11, 2019

Daily deal net: October 10, 2019

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

Oct 10, 2019

Fazua stays unfazed to collect $16.5m

UVC Partners returned to back Fazua together with the electric bike drive system maker's other existing investors and an EIB-run venture debt provider.

Oct 10, 2019

Stanford fails in bid for restraining order

Stanford University general counsel Debra Zumwalt reportedly hoped to prevent further legal filings against her and other Stanford trustees.

Oct 10, 2019

WVU presides over Vantage Ventures

The Vantage Ventures incubator will aim to realise West Virginia University's goal of making West Virginia a startup powerhouse.

Oct 10, 2019

Biontech binds itself to public markets

Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz's cancer therapy developer raised $150m despite reducing the number of shares in the IPO and floating beneath its range.

Oct 10, 2019

Aprea closes $97.8m IPO

The underwriters for Karolinska Institute spinout Aprea Therapeutics have taken up the over-allotment option in full to boost proceeds to nearly $97.8m.

Oct 9, 2019

Davidson rejoins In-Q-Tel

After a two-year stint with Allied Minds, Simon Davidson has moved back to In-Q-Tel as a managing partner.

Oct 9, 2019

Qorvo moves to buy Cavendish Kinetics

Qorvo has purchased a portfolio company, radio frequency technology developer Cavendish Kinetics, which was spun out of Cambridge two decades ago.

Oct 8, 2019
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