Global University Venturing

Varian Medical Systems led University of Michigan's robotic-assisted ultrasound device spinout's series C round, which also included Johnson & Johnson Innovation - JJDC.

Nationwide Children’s-founded advanced pathology platform Deep Lens has now raised $17.5m in all as it looks to grow its business in the clinical trial recruitment segment.

Queen’s University Belfast speech recognition technology spinout Liopa is working on a product that analyses lip movements to provide more robust analysis in noisy environments.

Uniseed, Carthona Capital and BridgeLane Group provided the funding for University of Sydney-founded Agerris, which is preparing to commercialise products including robotic farm hand systems.

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Oncology therapeutics developer Fusion Pharmaceticals closed a $105 round, featuring several corporate investors. The deal forms part of the growing broad oncology space, which has seen much attention from corporate venturers in recent years.

The Global University Venturing Deal Net rounds up the week’s smaller deals and tracks the startups emerging from universities and raising funding.

TechNovum will run from June to October 2019, providing the UTS institute’s faculty with assistance in validating their biomedical propositions for the market.

Catering services marketplace Hungry has now raised $12.5m in total, having added university venture unit James Madison Innovations to its investment consortium.

The Oxford University genetic sequencing spinout is reportedly mulling an IPO that would provide exits to investors including commercialisation firm IP Group.

The industry-academia partnership will start out with collaborations in the healthcare, robotics and human resources spaces, including a sports science tie-up with a Rakuten-owned baseball team and plans for software development hackathons.