Global University Venturing

Pallares, a member of NMSU’s IP advisory committee, has become fund manager of the $1.9m Arrowhead Innovation Fund, which backs New Mexico-based startups.

Oregon Venture Fund and Rogue Venture Partners have both backed University of Oregon's DNA testing services provider NemaMetrix to bring the spinout’s total to $8.5m.

Fitz Gate Ventures has started raising the successor to its initial $10m fund mainly focused on spinouts and startups linked to Princeton University.

Contrary Capital is seeding a second vehicle to back spinouts and university-linked startups through venture partners based at faculties across the US.

Fraunhofer has invested in Enerthing, which is launching IoT products powered by solar foils invented in partnership with Fraunhofer ISE.

GV participated as a new investor, as Harvard's genetic medicine developer Beam Therapeutics completed a round that followed $87m in series A funding last year.

ETH’s Paul Scherrer Institute has launched Araris Biotech to deliver production technology for site-specific ADCs that enable them to be used without being engineered from each patient.

Satt Sud-Est spinouts Click4Tag, C4Hydro and C4Biocontrol will merge to boost the commercialisation of microbe monitoring technologies built on research from six institutions.

University of Tokyo’s Utec has extended its foray into Indian VC investments by starting an accelerator in partnership with local venture fund Blume Ventures.

Oxford-founded biopharmaceutical development instrument manufacturer Refeyn has secured funding from the university and OSI to help scale manufacturing and distribution.