Global University Venturing

Duke spinout Istari Oncology has collected $43.5m out of a targeted $70m for its latest round.

Stanford Law School has participated in early funding for Medchart, split across seed and series A rounds.

The venture capital firm specialises in backing spinouts and has already celebrated an exit with the flotation of Amsterdam UMC’s Lava Therapeutics.

Leaps by Bayer has led the seed round for Edifice Health, which spun out of Stanford University and also attracted Ahren Innovation Capital.

The University of Tokyo-backed carveout fund’s latest limited partners include corporates Daikin, Hakuhodo and Mitsubishi Estate.

First reported late last year, Sense Biodetection has confirmed a $50m series B round backed by Cambridge Innovation Capital.

The oat milk brand, which has filed for a $100m offering in the US, traces its origins back to Lund University in the 1990s.

General Motors led a series D round for the lithium-metal battery technology spinout of MIT formerly known as SolidEnergy Systems.

University of Louisville spinout Talaris has filed for an initial public offering on the Nasdaq Global Market.

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

The CIC-backed eye disease treatment developer has filed for a $100m initial public offering, having raised over $250m in funding in the past two years.