Global University Venturing

MSU’s Student Venture Capital Fund will invest up to $50,000 in university-linked businesses with the administrative aid of MSU students taking the entrepreneurial finance course.

Based at DCU Invent, Deciphex has gained investors including Inova and GI Partners as it looks to refine its offering for the toxicologic and gastrointestinal segments of pathology.

Applied Morphomics has formally spun out of University of Michigan to deliver a medical analytics service powered by morphological scans of patients.

Indian Institute of Technology-Delhi will launch a deep tech incubator and innovation strategy on the back of its recent success in becoming an Indian government-sponsored institute of eminence.

The follow-on investment complements $1.7m raised by Oxford data analytics spinout Mind Foundry in 2016 from investors including Oxford Sciences Innovation.

Building on Chiba and Hokkaido university research, Think-Lands is aiming to commercialise microneedles manufactured with its optical vortex production system.

The total raised by Oxford’s spinouts was down from $229m year-on-year, though university tech transfer office OUI also marked its largest ever single exit during the period.

Building on KU Leuven and Amsterdam UMC research, Cytura hopes to find small molecule candidates that combat the issue of genomic variability in cancer.

Talaris, previously known as Regenerex and based on research at University of Louisville, will use the funding to advance its cell therapy into later-stage clinical development.

Osage University has returned for a $75m series B round raised by Arrakis Therapeutics, which has licensed technology from University of Pennsylvania.

Victor Christou has stepped down from his position as chief executive of Cambridge Innovation Capital just weeks after helping the unit raise $196m in additional funding.