Global University Venturing

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

Singapore Academy of Law is starting a legal tech accelerator as part of a wider initiative helmed by its SAL Ventures targeting innovation in the provision of legal services.

Facit’s seed-stage investments have helped its portfolio garner a total of $750m in follow-on commitments and commercial partnerships, a milestone attesting to its role in oncology-focused biotech innovation in Ontario.

USI-founded fake news detection technology developer Fabula AI has been scooped up by Twitter, which will employ the spinout's talent to remove spam and abuse from its platform.

Board director David Cairns will leave Frontier IP in August after almost nine years with the company focused on its portfolio investments.

M Ventures has backed the ETH Zurich spinout, which has devised a digital biomarker-driven medical device for diagnosing brain conditions such as Alzheimer's disease.

Ireland's higher education institutions must provide details of staff involvement in university-linked businesses in response to parliamentary concerns.

Bibliotech, First Light Fusion, Neurovalens Health, What3Words and Tropic Biosciences competed in this year’s Future Planet Awards at the GUV: Fusion conference.

India-based payment tech company PhonePe is looking to raised $1bn at $7bn-$8bn valuation from various investors, including Tencent.

Bristol-founded haptics platform developer Ultrahaptics is set to absorb Leap Motion's patents and employees, succeeding in a transaction that Apple failed to complete twice.

Gut microbiome medicine developer EnteroBiotix has been backed by University of Aberdeen in a round that brings its total to $3.2m.