Global University Venturing

Spun out of University of Cape Town, Nisonic hopes to use ultrasound to provide a better method for tracking brain pressure to monitor conditions such as stroke, brain tumours and head trauma.

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SMK Diagnostics is developing a sensor that can detect mosquito-borne diseases more quickly and cheaply than alternative methods.

Chip developer Tusk IC has been spun out from KU Leuven with capital provided by the Gemma Frisius Fund.

Inra spinout Nextbiotix has attracted capital from the institute itself as well as Biocodex and other institutional investors.

Amnon Dekel and Ayelet Cohen will lead the Hebrew University Entrepreneurship Centre and drive more collaboration across the Jerusalem ecosystem.

University of Queensland has taken the wraps off Pure Battery Technologies, which will commercialise technology to extract nickel and cobalt from low grade ores.

Osage University Partners has returned to back a series C1 round for Antiva, which is developing treatments for HPV and is based on research at UC San Diego.

Cryptocurrency exchange platform Binance has invested in a first round for Oasis Labs, based on research by Dawn Song at UC Berkeley.