Global University Venturing

Psyomics has added an undisclosed seed sum to capital previously raised from Parkwalk Advisors-managed vehicles Opportunities Fund and University of Cambridge Enterprise Fund.

The funding, provided by investors including Qbic, will allow VUB and VIB spinout Confo Therapeutics to accelerate its drug discovery efforts and move towards clinical trials.

Csiro Innovation Fund joined Westpac-backed Reinventure to co-lead cybersecurity platform creator Kasada’s latest round, which will help fund recruitment and international expansion.

A consortium involving public-private partnership HTGF has supplied funding to University of Bremen spinout Mirdetect to help a molecular diagnostics blood draw for testicular cancer.

University of Twente-founded cartilage repair injection developer Hy2Care is currently targeting orthopaedic knee applications in veterinary and human healthcare settings.

The university faces accusations it used Stanford-StartX Fund to illegally pursue a profit-led investment strategy while using its own funds and personnel to protect the applicability of its tax exemptions as a nonprofit institution.

Regenerative implant producer OssDsign, based on research at Karolinska University Hospital and Uppsala University, hopes to list on the Nasdaq First North and raise $15.8m.

Inspection robot manufacturer Invert Robotics was founded out of University of Canterbury in 2011 and has now secured corporate Yamaha Motor as an investor in its latest round.

OpenTable will offer Venga's customer analytics software to its restaurant clients following the acquisition, which will allow Big Red Ventures to exit.

Meat substitute developer Beyond Meat, which has received backing from two corporate venturers, went public.

Vay Sports has been spun out of University of Zurich to commercialise a fitness app that exploits computer vision to monitor a user's posture.