Global University Venturing

Princeton University has backed the business, which is piloting a fish farming optimisation technology in Norway.

Ann DeWitt has been named chief operating officer of the Engine, the MIT-created program to drive commercialisation efforts of research-intensive innovations.

Electric motor producer and Oxford spinout Yasa has raised $21.4m that will go to expanding its manufacturing capabilities.

Adam Workman will head up Oxford University Innovation's newly formed OUI Investments & New Ventures, which combines new and existing investments.

Oxford spinout Bodle Technologies has secured series A funding from investors including university venture fund Oxford Sciences Innovation.

The oncological surgical developer has been spun out from ICL with investment from China and Hong Kong.

Michigan’s Armune Bioscience has been bought by Exact Science, which plans to expand its cancer diagnostics range with Armune’s prostate cancer test.

The industrial data analytics provider has been backed by the Stanford-StartX fund, after graduating from the accelerator program in 2016.

UCD spinout Nuritas will mark the commercial release of a sports nutrition product formulated in part by its peptide discovery platform next year.

Neuspera is developing technology to power devices such as pacemakers by manipulating the direction of electromagnetic waves, exploiting research at Stanford University.