Global University Venturing

The private equity firm’s latest fund has closed with $2.1bn from backers including endowments for specialty materials, chemicals and pharmaceuticals investments.

Based on OSU research, Pellucere Technologies is to begin selling its soil resistant solar panel coating having previously disclosed a $3m equity investment in November last year.

NovaUCD has helped spawn 45 spinouts since 2003 and offered innovation support to companies which generated more than $128m of combined turnover during 2018.

Spark Therapeutics publicly listed in 2015 and is set to net Children's Hospital of Philadelphia up to $458m following its acquisition by Roche.

Fraunhofer Venture has unveiled an accelerator for businesses based on its research in areas including artificial intelligence, digital medicine and industry 4.0.

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Conversational marketing tool developer Eyelevel.ai graduated from UC Berkeley’s SkyDeck in 2018 and has now secured a follow-on investment from the accelerator.

Michigan’s endowment fund is to expand its contribution to Andreessen Horowitz’s cryptocurrency fund, which launched in last June.

Mapúa University has secured Philippine government support to set up the second of the Technology Licensing Office, the second of three planned tech transfer and innovation departments.

Rare disease diagnosis technology developer Centogene is gearing up for an IPO having spun out from Rostock in 2006 and raised $28.5m of equity funding in 2017.

Honda, Panasonic and Omron are among the limited partners of NordicNinja VC’s inaugural fund, which has identified several university ecosystems in northern Europe as offering opportunities.