Global University Venturing

The 12-week medtech and digital health accelerator is also being supported by medical care provider Hartford HealthCare and will onboard its first ten startups in June 2019.

Sohaib Mir has earned a promotion to principal having joined Cambridge Innovation Capital to provide business expertise in the life science space in 2014.

KU Leuven has retained pole position on Reuters’ Top 100 index of innovative European universities for the fourth year running, while Germany's academic sector grabbed the most places of any country.

The CIC-backed clinical genomics platform operator took its series B round to $30.1m following a $17.1m extension that will fund the development of automation and statistical analysis functionality.

VTT and the EIF will anchor Voima Ventures’ fund, which is aiming to raise $56.1m to invest in deep tech businesses based on science and research from the Nordics and Baltics.

Johns Hopkins University has invested in medical transport booking platform Roundtrip, a graduate of JHU-backed accelerator M-1 Ventures.

Cirtemo, which incorporated University of South Carolina-born MagAssemble, has been acquired by Thorlabs for an unspecified amount.

Cambridge Enterprise and CIC featured in cancer therapy developer PolyProx Therapeutics’ seed round, which will coommercialise research from the university’s pharmacology department.

MRCF has kickstarted a fifth fund to make early-stage investments in medical technologies from its network of member research institutions in Australia and New Zealand.

Edtech provider Renaissance has bought UM's early years education assessment provider Early Learning Labs, vindicating twenty years of government-funded research.

UCL bowel cancer diagnostics spinout Odin Vision has attracted the UCL Technology Fund in a round that will support trials of its first computer vision-powered product.