Global University Venturing

UCL and Francis Crick-founded Achilles has raised series B funding at a reported $228m valuation and will now look to advance lung cancer and melanoma treatments.

Antibiotics developer MGB Biopharma's lead candidate exploits University of Strathclyde research, and it has just raised an undislcosed amount of new capital.

Alex Stockham, communications manager at In-Part, looks at the challenges surrounding international collaborations.

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

Regional TTO Satt AxLR has joined forces with University of Reunion Island to evaluate the latter's commercialisation opportunities.

Run by Miami University students, VC unit RedHawk Ventures will seek $1.5m for a new fund to back university-linked startups.

Stanford-StartX Fund-backed healthcare servies platform Luma Health has taken its overall funding to almost $26m.

UChicago Startup Investment Program is among a group of backers that provided $47m to support the launch of a Florida-focused home insurance carrier, the first of Kin's subsidiaries to underwrite its own policies.

Dushant Pathak has revealed his intention to leave UC Davis next week, standing down as associate vice-chancellor for innovation and tech commercialisation.

Motion biomarker diagnostics company Figur8, which partly builds on MIT research, has collected $7.5m in a round involving MIT Media Labs affiliate E14 Fund.

Smart urban lighting management business Smartnodes has been picked up by Lacroix Group having spun out of University of Liège and UCLouvain in 2007.