Global University Venturing

HTGF, Think.Health Ventures and Business Angels have also supplied funding to Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry mass spectrometry spinout PreOmics.

UAVC has returned to back UA-founded hospitality staffing platform Qwick after investing an undisclosed sum in November 2018.

Ben-Gurion University of the Negev has announced a university venture fund called Cactus Capital to run in conjunction with a VC investment course for its students.

Boston Scientific has exercised its option to wholly acquire Millipede, based on research at Michigan, having purchased a $90m stake in the mitral regurgitation treatment device maker last year.

UC Berkeley spinout Iota Biosciences has obtained $15m in series A capital from investors including Astellas.

Having achieved an initial close of $8m in September, the Helmholtz spinout has now closed its series C round at $10.3m.

Stanford-StartX Fund has returned to pump funding into electric skateboard manufacturer Boosted, helping to take the company’s total funding to $70m.

Based on Oxford and Sao Paulo State University research, Osler Diagnostics is reportedly set to secure $38m to add to the $2.6m it raised in 2016.

MIT retail analytics spinout Celect has now raised a total of $25m, having received $15m in an NGP Partners-led round.

Co-founded by an Indiana University graduate, customer behaviour analytics software developer Zio has secured funding from two of the university’s venture funds.

Trinity College Dublin spinout Danalto has been backed by the spinout-focused Atlantic Bridge University Bridge Fund and Enterprise Ireland.