Global University Venturing

University of Manchester’s UMI3 has joined Frontier IP and Ingenza as a shareholder in newly-founded Plymouth antibiotics spinout Amprologix.

Founded by a Northwestern student, cold-brew coffee vendor BrewBike has added the university's NUSeeds fund and angel investors to its seed consortium.

Stanford-StartX Fund-backed microbial diagnostics and wellness product developer UBiome has raised $83m in series C funding.

Research institute DFKI has launched a spinout to deliver robotics and AI-based technologies originating from its Bremen-based Robotics Innovation Centre.

Multi-university TTO Satt Sud-Est has licensed patents to GenOmnis for an RNA-based bioinformatics technology that will assess the pathogenicity of biological organisms.

Principia Biopharma, whose drug discovery platform is based on research at UCSF, has completed a $122m initial public offering after underwriters exercised their greenshoe option.

The MIT-affiliated Engine Fund has achieved a final close of more than $205m, above its initial target of $150m.

Harare Institute of Technology's new tech transfer office is currently preparing documents to secure its policy base after assisting president Emmerson Mnangagwa's "100-day" drive earlier this year.

Institut Curie has supplied an undisclosed sum to its second immuno-oncology spinout, Honing Biosciences, which will focus on improved drug delivery mechanisms.

The GUV September issue editorial by Thierry Heles.

Editor-in-chief James Mawson takes an in-depth look at what the Horizon Europe budget needs to achieve.