Cambridge Touch Technologies (CTT), a Cambridge University spinout working on 3D multi-touch interfaces for smartphones and tablets, has closed a series A round of undisclosed size. The round was led by Cambridge Enterprise, the university’s tech transfer office, with participation from Amadeus Capital Partners and Parkwalk Advisors. CTT previously also obtained seed funding from the Cambridge Enterprise Fund III in April and from Cambridge Enterprise in February 2016.
Commercialisation firm Frontier IP has purchased a 20% stake in Cambridge University spinout Tarsis Technologym whgich is working on technology to control the release of drugs into the body. Tarsis is a spinout of the Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology and is based on research by David Fairen-Jimenez. Campbell Wilson has joined the Tarsis board for Frontier IP.
Crystalline Mirror Solutions, a spinout of Vienna University and Vienna Center of Quantum Sciences and Technology, has collected a seven-figure sum from a consortium led by AWS Gründerfonds, according to Die Presse. The spinout is working on mirror technology aimed at precision optics, with applications in a wide range of products from atomic clocks to heat management of high intensity lasers.