Global University Venturing

Ohio's state government has launched Ohio IP Promise, a standard set of intellectual property guidelines for academic research in the state.

The immuno-oncology drug developer, spun out of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, has filed for a $100m offering in the US.

Karolinska Institute spinout Aprea Therapeutics has filed to raise approximately $68.3m in an IPO that will see it list on the Nasdaq Global Select Market.

Institut Mérieux has returned for a $26.5m round for surgical technology developer Keranova, having previously supported a $4.6m round three and a half years ago.

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

University of Sydney's quantum error-correction spinout Q-Ctrl has added $15m from investors including Main Sequence Ventures and plans to double its headcount and open a US office.

IP Group-backed WaveOptics has obtained $13m to bring its series C round to $39m as it looks to scale in its target markets and ramp up production capacity.

TIAP, previously Mars Innovation, has lured drug firm Amgen to co-invest in portfolio businesses based on its members' health sciences research.

Trucode is advancing in vivo gene editing applications for disorders including sickle cell disease that grew from Yale research and has been backed by GV and Kleiner Perkins.

Autodesk has led a $26.8m series C round for aPriori, a spinout of University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

MIT-founded robotic interior design developer Ori found support from Sidewalk Labs and Ingka Group as it looks to deliver full robotic interiors in partnership with architects and property developers.