Global University Venturing

Rich Ferrie has bid farewell to University of Manchester after 14 years to join University College Cork's tech transfer operation.

Idea Fund has provided seed capital for SciArt Software, a spinout of Wisconsin-Madison that has developed a weight reduction tool for engineering structures.

Significant Capital Ventures was officially launched this week to invest in seed-stage spinouts emerging out of five Australian universities.

UCL Technology Fund-backed gene therapy developer Orchard Therapeutics raised $200m in an offering that could possibly close at $230m.

Ariel University spinout Innoging has made its public debut and will commercialise ultrasound technology that lets radiologists manipulate scans without the patient being present.

Leiden University has backed a series A round co-led by Evonik and VisVires New Protein.

Oxford spinout Argonaut Therapeutics has received $2.6m from JW Pharmaceuticals in return for a 25% stake.

Acera Surgical, a spinout of Washington University in St Louis, has raised an initial $5.1m out of a targeted $10m.

UNC-Chapel Hill has become the latest university to join forces with Deerfield Management and launch a $65m commercialisation fund.

Stanford-StartX Fund has exited business intelligence software provider DataFox in an acquisition of undisclosed size by Oracle.

IU Philanthropic Venture Fund has committed $500,000 to a $2.2m bridge round for Nerx Biosciences, based on research at Indiana University.