Global University Venturing

Topas has closed its series A round at nearly $21m, following a $4.6m extension that will be used to advance potential autoimmune disease therapies towards clinical trials.

The Stanford-StartX fund-backed cloud computing optimisation platform has brought in $30m in a round that took its total funding to $140m.

The bacterial infections drug developer, based on research at Harvard Medical School, has gone public.

Unternehmertum Venture Capital Partners has taken part in a $12m series A round for 3YourMind, an additive manufacturing spinout of Technical University of Berlin.

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The two institutions have chosen 16 cybersecurity teams from Israel and Germany to receive almost three months of training.

OpenIOLabs has been bought by diversified scientific research firm Cronin in a $615,000 all-shares deal.

The Tokyo Institute of Technology spinout has raised $10.1m to continue development of its medical robot that assist surgeons during delicate procedures.

The spinout will develop research on drugs that could one day shorten the lifespan of cancerous cells.

The Arizona spinout is searching for non-opioid painkillers that target sections of the nerve cell membrane thought responsible for pain disorders.