Global University Venturing

PredictImmune, a Cambridge spinout, added series B capital from investors including Cambridge Enterprise and CIC to $6.1m in series A funding raised last April.

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

Based on discoveries from MIT scientists, Agrivida has now raised more than $67m in total and will soon launch its flagship plant-based enzyme product.

UTokyo IPC, Keio Innovation Initiative and Innovations and Future Creation have contributed to a $79.7m series A that increased the Tokyo spinout's total funding to about $100m.

Since the beginning of 2018, a fifth of all corporate investors whose deals we track appear to be newcomers.

Harvard Medical School spinout TScan has come out of stealth with $48m in funding provided by investors including GV and two Novartis units.

Cash Capital joined a unit of Red Star Macalline to back Mingdu Intelligent, which provides drug manufacturing services mainly related to data management and quality control.

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

Johnson & Johnson, Alexandria Venture Investments and Serum Institute of India contributed to a series A for Albert Einstein College of Medicine spinout X-Vax.

A survey by Knowledge Transfer Ireland suggests there are now 119 active spinouts in Ireland, with Irish universities responsible for 76% of the country's patent filings last year.

Pennsylvania Biotechnology Center of Bucks County is launching a $50m fund to invest in resident startups and to help establish university spinouts.