Global University Venturing

Osage University Partners has promoted four across its finance and investment teams, including that of healthcare-focused senior associate Stephanie Stehman to the position of principal.

A total of 14 Ireland-based research teams will receive help to take their intellectual property work towards the commercial market.

Sector focus: Transport

The first month of the new year was marked by large and notable deals in the transport sector.

The research body will need an additional $123m in its budget to help meet government targets and keep pace with research investment in other countries.

UC Berkeley-related artificial intelligence companies could receive up to $120,000 under the university's partnership with incubator the House and Google.

Celgene has agreed to acquire Impact Biomedicines for a multibillion dollar whose total size may reach $7bn, giving an exit to fellow pharmaceutical company Sanofi. This is a record-setting deal in the life-sciences exits involving corporate investors, where other transactions like IPOs seems to have been in decline.

Via Oncology has been acquired by Elsevier for an undisclosed amount, nine years after being spun out of UPMC.

Humboldt University of Berlin spinout Newsenselab has lured High-Tech Gründerfonds and Think.Health Ventures back to the table after an earlier six-figure round in November 2016.