Global University Venturing

Oxford regenerative medicine spinout OxStem, which raised $24.4m in 2016, has launched two subsidiaries to focus on therapies for diabetes, chronic inflammation and wound healing.

Yale University’s endowment will reportedly back a $400m cryptocurrency-focused fund called Paradigm together with investors including Sequoia Capital.

CSU Ventures added five spinouts and 36 licensing agreements to its portfolio during the 2018 fiscal year, taking its total to 45 and 315 respectively.

Editor Thierry Heles sits down with David Grimm, manager of the UCL Technology Fund, to find out what makes the fund unique among its UK and international peers.

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University of Waterloo is suing its grid battery manufacturing spinout Salient Energy, which it claims must sign back IP rights due to a misapplication of its tech transfer policy.

Peptide-based drug developer Navigen has been backed by University of Utah-based student venturing fund UVF II in its first equity round.

University of Michigan's manufacturing coolant spinout Fusion Coolant Systems has been backed by the institution's Mints fund, taking its total to $9.9m.

Virtual training software provider Strivr increased its total funding to more than $23m, having been incubated in partnership with Stanford’s Virtual Human Interaction Lab.

KIT-founded valve actuator manufacturer Memetis has received capital from the university and HTGF to help expand development and production.

Five US-based biomedical projects at Wayne State University have received Mtrac funding to pursue goals including better immunotherapy and new antibiotics.