Global University Venturing

Woodford Investment Management increases its stake in Imperial innovations to 21% with a $16m investment.

Finance for Business North East invests $173,000 in Hexislab, a company using machine learning to identify compounds for skincare.

Phomera Technologies unlocks an industrial process to replicate the colour-changing properties of butterfly wings.

Novo and Sofinnova Partners have co-led a series B round for Rgenix, a spinout of Rockefeller University that hopes to enter two immunotherapies into clinical trials this autumn.

The two Australia universities come together to create a biomedical research enterprise called M2 Venture Catalyst with the backing of the state of Victoria.

The Kaust Innovation Fund backs Nomadd, an automated cleaning system for solar panels, spun out of King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, in its $1m series A round.

University of Montana Foundation backs Next Frontier Capital's inaugural fund that supports technology and healthcare companies in the state.

Chile brings together 26 universities and 12 science laboratories with a fund to centralise technology transfer with three hubs in the country.

Imperial Innovations furthers its commitment to Featurespace, a behavioural analytics spinout of Cambridge, by investing in the company for the third time.

Imperial Innovations exits its investment in Imperial College London spinout Alkion Biopharma, selling its shares to chemical company Evonik Industries.