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Global University Venturing

Epidarex closes $127m fund

The universities of Edinburgh, Manchester, Glasgow and Aberdeen have all contributed to Epidarex’s latest fund, which will invest in life sciences spinouts.


Jun 22, 2020

Orca Bio organises $192m series D

Kaiser Permanente contributed to a round that pushed the total raised by the Stanford-aligned cellular cancer therapy developer to $300m.

Jun 22, 2020

Corporates make Wise investment in $15m round

MIT Media Lab's E14 fund has contributed to a round that will fund research and development for the logistics management platform developer.

Jun 19, 2020

Infinity Biologix picks up $44.4m

Rutgers University-New Brunswick has spun out Infinity Biologix with backing from Viking Global Investors to manage the distribution of a saliva-based coronavirus test.

Jun 19, 2020

Daily deal net: June 18, 2020

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

Jun 19, 2020

Illumina decodes BlueBee acquisition

TU Delft and Imperial-founded genetic data analytics software provider BlueBee has been picked up after raising at least $13.5m of funding.

Jun 19, 2020

Monzo onboards new funding at reduced valuation

Vanderbilt University was among the participants in a $75.9m round for Monzo that cut the mobile bank's valuation from more than $2.5bn to under $1.6bn.

Jun 18, 2020

EtheRNA extracts series B funding

Grand Decade and existing investor Boehringer Ingelheim Venture Fund helped supply $38.2m for the mRNA immunotherapy developer and Vrije Universiteit Brussel spinout.

Jun 18, 2020

BioCurate inks Uniseed pact

Uniseed has entered a co-investment pact with BioCurate, a drug discovery fund for early-stage University of Melbourne and Monash University research.

Jun 18, 2020

Proprio picks up $23m

Founded by University of Washington faculty, Proprio has raised series A funding to commercialise its multi-camera surgical imaging system.

Jun 18, 2020

Biofrigas cooks up $1.7m IPO

Chalmers Ventures portfolio company Biofrigas has set out plans for a $1.7m IPO but has already issued around $1.2m to existing connections.

Jun 18, 2020

Volkswagen to drive $200m to QuantumScape

The carmaker has followed up a $100m investment two years ago with a pledge to provide up to $200m for the Stanford-originated solid-state battery developer.

Jun 17, 2020
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