Global University Venturing

Tuneable laser spinout Chromacity secures $770,000 in funding to help it increase its development and commercialise its product.

NYU Tandon Incubators ends the year with a survival rate of nearly 90% and with its graduates having had an economic impact of approximately $352m since its inception.

Taiyu Capital, a corporate venturing unit of TigerMed, is among the investors in a round that increased the concussion response specialist's total funding to $13m.

Novan, which is planning to move its acne drug candidate into phase 3 trials next year, raised $50m in a Malin Corporation-backed round in March.

Nokia's corporate venturing unit led a round that increased the workflow automation company's total funding to more than $36m.

Sheffield University spinout Diurnal began trading on Aim, on Christmas eve, raising $44.6m.

Pejman Mar Ventures' University of California, Berkeley competition awards $250,000 to Dotdashpay and creates two new prizes for Tinkering Labs and Thera.

Technologies that are changing the world and the 2015 venture-backed deals that showcase their potential - today genome editing and quantum computing.

Universities see entrepreneurial step change.