Global University Venturing

Douglas Flint has been appointed as chairman of IP Group, taking over from Mike Humphrey on November 1.

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Caroline Dreyer has been promoted after serving as deputy general manager of regional TTO Satt Conectus in Alsace for six years.

Medical imaging company iThera spun out of Helmholtz Zentrum München in 2010 and has now been backed by lighting products maker Osram.

Indiana University has marked a successful three-year period during which it reported 154 licensing agreements and $17.1m in tech transfer revenue.

UCSF digital therapy spinout Akili Interactive Labs previously disclosed $97.4m in funding from investors including Amgen and Merck Group.

UC Berkeley's SkyDeck accelerator is now open to founders from any University of California campus as well as foreign nationals applying through its global acceleration stream.

Medical University of Innsbruck immunotherapy spinout ViraTherapeutics has been bought for $245m by its existing shareholder Boehringer Ingelheim, enabling EMBL to exit.

Luxembourg car insurance telematics spinout Motion-S has secured the backing of automobile and cycle trade body Febiac as it prepares to expand into other mobility segments.

VTC Innovation Fund is among the investors in agricultural management software developer Growers’ latest round.