Global University Venturing

Founded at Imperial Collge London, Sprout three years ago, Sprout.ai has now secured $11m in a series A round led by Octopus Ventures.

Every day, Global University Venturing rounds up the smaller investments from across the university innovation ecosystem in its deal net.

Advancing Harvard Medical School research, Dyno Therapeutics has raised $100m to advance its gene therapies based on AAV.

Talaris has raised $150m in an initial public offering almost two decades after being spun out of University of Louisville as Regenerx.

Evotec has partnered Bristol-Myers Squibb to launch another Bridge programme, this time focusing on the universities of Birmingham, Dundee, Edinburgh and Nottingham.

UW spinout TwinStrand has completed a $50m series B round led by Section 32, while Alexandria Venture Investments invested a third time.

American Electric Power, Chevron and Equinor all participated in a round that increased the Stanford company’s total funding to $228m.

GV, Mass General Brigham Ventures and Lonza helped Affinia Therapeutics raise $110m to commercialise work originating at Harvard.

CU Boulder’s solid-state battery provider pulled in funding through a series B round co-led by potential customers BMW and Ford.

Every day, Global University Venturing rounds up the smaller investments from across the university innovation ecosystem in its deal net.