Global University Venturing

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

Alexandria LaunchLabs will launch in early 2021 as Stanford University looks to bolster its life sciences ecosystem and provide more flexible workspace options for its researchers.

University of Cambridge-founded autoimmune disease developer PredictImmune has expanded its IP base with first refusal rights on prognostics for systemic lupus erythematosus.

Alicia Greated, Heriot-Watt University’s director of research and enterprise has been named chief executive of Innovate UK’s Knowledge Transfer Network.

ItaTech has committed an initial $33m to the fund, which will invest in spinouts emerging out of 19 partner universities and research institutes across Italy.

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

Oxford spinout Semmle has been acquired by GitHub, a subsidiary of Microsoft, providing exits to investors including Accel that had supplied $31m in funding.

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

A new $10.4m vehicle targeting South Africa's university ecosystem is due to be approved on September 28.

The Visegrad Fund has been pumping money into driving innovation and entrepreneurship across Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia.

University of California-aligned Mission Bay Capital's third fund attracted UC Investments, Eli Lilly, Astellas Pharma and Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati as limited partners.