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First-time equity deals in UK spinouts fall 22% — report
The number of deals in UK spinouts at the earliest stage of equity investing has been falling over the past few years, highlighting a potential bottleneck in early-stage funding.
Sep 16, 2024Cleerly captures investors’ hearts in $192m series C
Launched just a year ago to build on work at Weill Cornell Medicine and New York-Presbyterian Hospital, Cleerly has now closed an oversubscribed series C round.
Jul 25, 2022CardiaTec captures $1.7m
Cambridge Enterprise has put cash into CardiaTec Biosciences in a pre-seed round that marks the inaugural deal for Laidlaw Scholars Ventures.
Jul 6, 2022OQC heads to Japan after $46m series A
Oxford Quantum Circuits' series A round is already among the largest for a European quantum company and could still go higher.
Jul 5, 2022ReCode registers $120m series B extension
UT Southwestern Medical Center spinout ReCode Therapeutics has now raised a total of $200m in its series B round from investors including Osage University Partners.
Jun 30, 2022Zap Energy zips to $160m series C
University of Washington spinout Zap Energy is working on building a cheap, scalable fusion reactor generating low cost and carbon free energy.
Jun 28, 2022MicroTransponder manifests $53m series E
Osage University Partners has added MicroTransponder to a small but mightly portfolio of medical device companies.
Jun 23, 2022Elypta elicits $21m series A
Chalmers spinout Elypta is working on a metabolism-based liquid biopsy for early cancer detection that it hopes will catch any type of the disease.
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London (UK)News Continued
Deals: June 1, 2022
Orphan CNS therapy developer Minoryx Therapeutics closed a $54.8m series C and MIT's The Engine co-led a $10.5m seed round for Foundation Alloy.
Jun 1, 2022
Exits: May 31, 2022
Evotec has bought University of Modena and Reggio Emilia spinout Rigenerand for $24.7m.
May 31, 2022
Deals: May 31, 2022
ZGT has raised $48m from Tsinghua Holdings Capital, CAS Star and others, while University of Cambridge spinout Colorifix has pocketed $22.7m.
May 31, 2022
Deals: May 27, 2022
The Global University Venturing deal net rounds up the smaller investments from across the university innovation ecosystem.
May 27, 2022
Exits: May 26, 2022
A roundup of exits, including IPOs and acquisitions, across the tech transfer ecosystem.
May 26, 2022
Deals: May 26, 2022
The Global University Venturing deal net rounds up the smaller investments from across the university innovation ecosystem.
May 26, 2022Editor's Picks
OQC heads to Japan after $46m series A
Oxford Quantum Circuits' series A round is already among the largest for a European quantum company and could still go higher.
Jul 5, 2022
CFS sparks $1.8bn series B
MIT spinout Commonwealth Fusion Systems has raised the largest funding round yet for a nuclear fusion developer with investors including The Engine.
Dec 1, 2021
Aerovate accesses public markets
Less than a year after raising $72.6m in its series A round, Aerovate Therapeutics has gone public following an IPO worth more than $121m.
Jul 1, 2021Big deal: Oxford PV begins capturing series D
Goldwind, Legal & General and Equinor have all taken part in a series D that achieved a $41m first close and boosted the Oxford spinout’s total equity and debt to more than $118m.
Mar 18, 2019
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