Global University Venturing

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Oxford drug delivery spinout Evox Therapeutics collected funding from Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in its bid to engineer exosome delivery vessels for a range of drugs.

Drawing on PSL research expertise, patient billing management platform Sancare anticipates strengthening its links with the university following investment from the PSL Innovation Fund.

The MIT Media Lab customer call analytics spinout has now raised $45m for a series C round featuring investors including Salesforce Ventures, Avaya and Hearst Ventures.

Henry Nowak has left North Dakota State University to direct University of Wyoming’s tech transfer hub.

Tsinghua’s Tus-Holdings is weighing up a venture capital fund as part of a $584m push into Japan’s artificial intelligence, fintech and robotics sectors.

Backed by investors including BDC Capital, Toronto-founded Blue J Legal hopes to adapt its legal forecasting technology to the US system.

Cambridge neural interface spinout Bios will use some of the seed capital to develop an interface between prosthetic objects and the human nervous system.

Arizona-founded Freefall Aerospace has been backed by UAVC in its efforts to commercialise antennas for 5G and satellite communications.

Vascudyne will develop vascular medical devices offering enhanced performance on the back of a stem cell-grown tissue with similar biological and mechanical qualities to the native equivalent.

Chemicals firm JNC has injected $4.5m into Northwestern battery spinout SiNode Systems, which has rebranded to Nanograf Technologies as a result.