Global University Venturing

January 2019 issue editorial by Thierry Heles, editor, Global University Venturing

Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad joined Unitus Ventures and Axilor Ventures to supply seed capital to radiology directory 5C Network, which helps hospitals access radiology expertise.

Evervault is pursuing seed funding for encryption software that protects compromised networks, while MyStudyPal has launched an academic timetabling app.

Third-party venture firm University of Arizona Venture Capital raised its first fund last year and has since backed five Arizona-linked businesses with an average cheque size of $2m.

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UNL spinout Drone Amplified has devised a drone that conducts fire management stress tests on parklands by dropping small combustible balls filled with glycol on targeted pieces of land.

OSU-founded cybersecurity business DatAnchor has officially launched with an undisclosed sum from the multi-university-backed Ohio Innovation Fund, and Dundee Venture Capital.

Based on Lund University research, group B streptococcus vaccine developer Minervax has now raised $11.4m from investors including Novo.

Purdue’s Trask Innovation Fund has committed $50,000 each to short-term research projects into sodium-ion batteries and a handheld plant scanner, in addition to $21,000 for a data security project.

Australian National University helped supply series A funding to scientific testing device manufacturer Liquid Instruments, which is led by a professor from the university’s College of Science.

Hebrew University Jerusalem’s Yissum is tuning up an extension of its overseas commercialisation activities in the US, South America and China.