Global University Venturing

Medical diagnostics developer Drawbridge Health has secured capital from Kyoto University Innovation Capital thanks to a meeting at the GUV: Fusion conference.

Meatable has secured the backing of a range of VC investors to commercialise a cultured hamburger based on Cambridge and Stanford patents.

Partly based on Columbia University research, Modis is advancing treatments for rare diseases caused by dysfunction in cellular mitochondria.

Universities in Japan will be given the right to take long-term equity in spinouts as the government looks to improve availability of funding for homegrown research.

Cambridge Enterprise, CIC and Parkwalk have returned to back locational data technology spinout PervasID as the business targets further growth in healthcare, retail and security.

The MIT industrial modelling tool spinout received commitments from Innogy and Shell to drive further adoption of its products in the energy sector.

Toyota has backed Imperial's spatial robotics software spinout SlamCore's latest round, adding to seed funding raised from Imperial Innovations and others in May 2017.

Sutro Biopharma, an immunotherapy developer commercialising technology created at Stanford University, has floated on the Nasdaq Global Market.

UCLA co-led the online meat and fish merchant's series C round, which included Bertelsmann, Sistema Asia and Vertex Ventures.

Satellite launching rocket producer Gilmour Space Technologies has been backed by Main Sequence Ventures, managers of Csiro Innovation Fund, taking its total to $17.4m.

University of Rochester-affiliated VC fund Excell Partners has been selected to manage a state government-funded vehicle targeting local companies in sectors such as optics and life sciences.