Global University Venturing

Unipart Rail has acquired Instrumentel, a spinout from University of Leeds that is developing telemetry systems for rail and automotive applications.

Northwestern University and Osage University Partners both returned to back a $70m series B for Aptinyx, having previously contributed to a $65m series A round in May 2016.

The universities of Sheffield and Leeds have launched a new spinout, Redbrick Molecular, that will market specialty chemicals.

The dental imaging spinout is set to launch technology that gives dental patients a real-time visual impression of ongoing tooth decay.

University of York celebrates an exit as York EMC Services is acquired by Eurofins, over two decades after being founded.

Diabetes diagnostics developer Zenomics has received $5.8m from biomedical device producer MicroPort Scientific in the first tranche of its first funding round.

Triangle Venture Alliance has made its inaugural investment, backing medical device manufacturer 410 Medical.

UNC-Chapel Hill spinout Falcon Therapeutics has raised a seed round from unnamed backers.

UT Dallas spinout Cersci has raised approximately $4m to advance its non-opioid painkiller into human clinical trials by the end of next year.