Global University Venturing

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

Truework, which provides software to run employment and income background checks, secured the return of Sequoia Capital and Khosla Ventures to bring its total to $45m.

Novo has led a $60m series C round for University of Dundee’s Exscientia that also attracted Evotec, Bristol-Myers Squibb, and GT Healthcare Capital.

Stanford’s proteomic analysis spinout has lifted its funding haul beyond $100m with a round set to drive new hires and technology development.

Oxford Nanopore has added $59.6m to its latest funding round to bring the round to $98.1m and its overall funding to nearly $692m.

Nanoform has filed for a dual listing in Sweden and Finland, marking the first time that a University of Helsinki spinout is seeking an initial public offering.

US-based construction services provider Katerra received $200m in funding from the SoftBank Vision Fund I, the vehicle formed by telecoms conglomerate SoftBank.

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

Led by UCLA’s Sri Kosuri, Octant is working on drugs for complex diseases and will use the series A funding to further develop its platform.

Vetmeduni has joined forces with incubator Accent to boost resources for commercialising its veterinary research.

GV and Illumina Ventures returned to reinvest in cellular therapy developer SQZ Biotechnologies, an MIT spinout that has now raised at least $166m to date.