Global University Venturing

BlueDot, a disease containment technology spinout set up by St Michael’s Hospital and Mars Innovation, has secured series A capital.

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

HKU has selected 25 university-linked businesses to receive funding from its portion of the government-funded Technology Start-up Support Scheme for Universities.

Allied Minds has returned again for a series B round that took the firm's geospatial data analytics technology subsidiary's total funding to about $96m.

UVC Partners has backed a $13.5m round that came four years after the diagnostic technology spinout of LMU secured a series B featuring UnternehmerTUM.

OUP, Celgene and Astellas Venture Management all supplied a portion of the funding to bring the Caltech-founded cancer drug developer's lifetime funding to $92m.

Mobility analytics provider Teralytics, an ETH Zurich spinout, has added funding from investors including Robert Bosch Venture Capital and Atomico.

UW-founded cancer immunotherapy developer Neoleukin Therapeutics will merge with Aquinox in an all-share deal giving the spinout's shareholders roughly 38.6% equity in the new company.

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

MedWhat's request to replace a judge hearing the case against Stanford-StartX Fund has been refused and the company has been ordered to pay costs for blocking discovery.

The newly-named University of Arizona Center for Innovation is to expand with regional partnerships and additional office space as it looks to cement the university’s role in driving local entrepreneurship.