Global University Venturing

Inra spinout Nextbiotix has attracted capital from the institute itself as well as Biocodex and other institutional investors.

Amnon Dekel and Ayelet Cohen will lead the Hebrew University Entrepreneurship Centre and drive more collaboration across the Jerusalem ecosystem.

University of Queensland has taken the wraps off Pure Battery Technologies, which will commercialise technology to extract nickel and cobalt from low grade ores.

Osage University Partners has returned to back a series C1 round for Antiva, which is developing treatments for HPV and is based on research at UC San Diego.

Cryptocurrency exchange platform Binance has invested in a first round for Oasis Labs, based on research by Dawn Song at UC Berkeley.

The Stanford-StartX Fund-backed electric scooter and bike rental service has raised $335m in a GV-led round that also included Uber.

Andera Partners has led a $55m funding round for Dynacure, co-founded by Satt Conectus to commercialise research from the Institute of Genetic and Molecular and Cellular Biology.

The Leap Fund will back early-stage, risky research that would not be able to secure funding through other channels.

Gunilla Lundmark has been hired as managing director of Uppsala University Holding, succeeding founding chief executive Lars Jonsson.

Unternehmertum Venture Capital Partners has agreed to sell its shares in AMW as part of an acquisition led by Hybio Pharmaceutical and Yunfeng Capital.