Global University Venturing

ANU Connect Ventures has participated in a series B round for Liquid Instruments, which builds on research at Australian National University.

Jeff Welch has joined Duke as director of new ventures, while executive director Robin Rasor has been promoted to associate VP.

Augusta University has hired Northwestern’s Michael Moore as director of technology transfer.

Lund spinout Glō has agreed to an acquisition by Nanosys, which will now look to strengthen its market share in TV sets and enter more markets such as AR.

IP Group is exiting the diffractive waveguide producer in a cash-and-share purchase by Snap.

The Lund research-based oat milk brand has floated in a $1.43bn IPO on the Nasdaq Global Select Market after pricing shares at $17.

Undisclosed investors have supplied series D funding for the Tsinghua-backed bookkeeping and taxation software developer.

Imec's venture capital arm has received $36.7m in capital from the Flemish government for its sophomore fund.

Theodorus has invested in Giiant Pharma’s $11m seed round.

The UC Berkeley spinout-derived genetic eye disease therapeutics company has launched with fresh funding featuring new and founding investors.

New and returning investors have helped the DTU-backed project management software producer close its new round, lifting its total funding in excess of $28m.