Global University Venturing

Keio’s synthetic silk producer increased its valuation to over $1.2bn in a round led by Carlyle Japan Partners.

Harvard spinout Emulate will use the cash to further develop its organ-on-a-chip technology, having now raised nearly $225m in total.

Parkwalk Advisors and Cambridge Innovation Capital have backed the pet antibody therapeutics developer, a spinout of Wellcome Sanger Institute.

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign’s cost management platform developer has increased its valuation to $280m in its most recent round.

Stryker has bought the surgery monitoring software provider, which was backed by Stanford-StartX Fund.

The Tsinghua-backed data storage company has secured backing from corporates Legend Holdings and Hundsun to further develop its technology.

Every day, Global University Venturing rounds up the smaller investments from across the university innovation ecosystem in its deal net.

Notre Dame’s Pit Road Fund has re-invested in the enterprise blockchain deployment platform and was joined by Stanford Law School Venture Fund.

The data analytics software producer, which counts Alphabet, Salesforce and Amazon among as backers, raised a $1.6bn series H at $38bn valuation. It is a case in point for the upward pressure in valuations of companies from this space which we have been seeing.

The cybersecurity platform operator has achieved $160m of total funding through a series D round backed by Osage University Partners.