Global University Venturing

ASU-backed Forage has added Telstra Ventures and Citi Ventures to its list of shareholders through a $25m series B round.

Utah spinout Techcyte has received $21m in funding, three and a half years after its series A round.

University of Cambridge has taken part in a $13.9m series A round for its spinout Echion Technologies.

Hannover Medical School spinout Cardior has welcomed both new and existing backers, such as Bristol Myers Squibb, for a series B round led by Inkef Capital.

Exploiting research at University of Pittsburgh and UPMC, Novasenta has been established with $20m in seed financing.

Osage University Partners is among the returning backers that have helped push Stanford-linked Dice Molecules’ total funding to around $200m.

The UC Santa Barbara-launched food preservation technology developer’s latest round valued it at $2bn.

Cash Capital has reinvested in the semiconductor technology developer through a $46.3m series D round.

Slingshot Aerospace has acquired the UChicago spinout developing a communication channel for preventing satellite collisions in space.

Agriculture analytics software producer Regrow has picked up series A funding from investors including Main Sequence Ventures.

Hong Kong X Technology Fund has backed a $15.4m funding round for robotics technology developer AgileX.