Global University Venturing

Singapore Academy of Law is starting a legal tech accelerator as part of a wider initiative helmed by its SAL Ventures targeting innovation in the provision of legal services.

Facit’s seed-stage investments have helped its portfolio garner a total of $750m in follow-on commitments and commercial partnerships, a milestone attesting to its role in oncology-focused biotech innovation in Ontario.

USI-founded fake news detection technology developer Fabula AI has been scooped up by Twitter, which will employ the spinout's talent to remove spam and abuse from its platform.

Board director David Cairns will leave Frontier IP in August after almost nine years with the company focused on its portfolio investments.

M Ventures has backed the ETH Zurich spinout, which has devised a digital biomarker-driven medical device for diagnosing brain conditions such as Alzheimer's disease.

Ireland's higher education institutions must provide details of staff involvement in university-linked businesses in response to parliamentary concerns.

Bibliotech, First Light Fusion, Neurovalens Health, What3Words and Tropic Biosciences competed in this year’s Future Planet Awards at the GUV: Fusion conference.

Bristol-founded haptics platform developer Ultrahaptics is set to absorb Leap Motion's patents and employees, succeeding in a transaction that Apple failed to complete twice.

Gut microbiome medicine developer EnteroBiotix has been backed by University of Aberdeen in a round that brings its total to $3.2m.

Dublin City University pollution monitoring platform developer Ambisense has secured capital from investors including the University Bridge Fund.

Retrium, which last attracted more than $1m in 2017, was founded by University of Maryland, College Park graduates to market a collaborative platform for software development teams.