Global University Venturing

WSU has filed a lawsuit ordering Phytelligence to cease growing its patented apple tree, despite retaining equity in the spinout.

Cykloburn, which is commercialising technology to produce electricity and heat from poultry farm litter, is the first spinout to emerge out of Morgan State University.

Cancer immunotherapy developer Arcus Biosciences will float at the top of its range, scoring an exit for Stanford University.

Commonwealth Fusion Systems, based on MIT research, has launched with $50m in initial capital from energy company Eni to develop fusion power.

The capital will help push development of the Cornell University spinout's copolymer-based materials for nanofabrication.

Carnegie Mellon spinout Voci will use the money to bolster sales and marketing activities.

ETH Zurich spinout Sensirion hopes to capture $58m by going public later this month in an offering that will position co-founders Felix Mayer and Moritz Lechner as anchor shareholders.

Tanel Ozdemir, an alumnus of UCL, has joined Albion Capital as an analyst of the UCL Technology Fund.