Global University Venturing

Indiana University has marked a successful three-year period during which it reported 154 licensing agreements and $17.1m in tech transfer revenue.

UCSF digital therapy spinout Akili Interactive Labs previously disclosed $97.4m in funding from investors including Amgen and Merck Group.

UC Berkeley's SkyDeck accelerator is now open to founders from any University of California campus as well as foreign nationals applying through its global acceleration stream.

Medical University of Innsbruck immunotherapy spinout ViraTherapeutics has been bought for $245m by its existing shareholder Boehringer Ingelheim, enabling EMBL to exit.

Luxembourg car insurance telematics spinout Motion-S has secured the backing of automobile and cycle trade body Febiac as it prepares to expand into other mobility segments.

VTC Innovation Fund is among the investors in agricultural management software developer Growers’ latest round.

UC Berkeley cybersecurity spinout Corelight has added General Catalyst to earlier investors including Accel Partners to bring its total funding to $34.2m.

3D finishing technology developer DyeMansion has been backed by UVC Partners, AM Ventures and BtoV Partners.

Ten businesses will receive $52,000 in grant funding for participating in a Francis Crick-operated accelerator for data science-powered biomedical interfaces.

AutoGrid, the distributed energy management platform backed by Stanford, will use the capital from the Eon, CLP, Innogy, Total, Ørsted and Tenaska-backed round to boost hiring.

University of Melbourne and Lockheed Martin have contributed to an additional $94.8m tranche for the Csiro Innovation Fund, bringing its total to $167m.