News round up for the past week.
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Game on for NaturalMotion with Zynga
Mobile gaming firm and Oxford spin-out NaturalMotion acquired by gaming platform Zynga for $527m.
Kansas University announces university-run business accelerator.
A Washington University in St. Louis professor sues mobile payments startup Square over alleged patent infringement.
The University of Waterloo’s Velocity startup programme celebrates $100m raised in external funding.
Oxford spin-out Nightstar launches with £12m ($20m) in backing from the Wellcome Trust to tackle inherited blindness.
Wellcome Trust’s £200m evergreen fund comes to life
The Wellcome Trust’s previously announced £200m evergreen fund launches as Syncona Partners.
Oxford secure payments spin-out OxCept switches gears towards peer-to-peer mobile payments.
RAE to back eight UK innovations
The Royal Academy of Engineering announces plans to back eight UK university innovations with business potential.
Leeds spin-out Evocutis aims to remodel its business into either selling or licensing its LabSkin product after disappointing 2013.
Green Energy Options raises £3m
Green Energy Options secures £3m ($4.96m) from the University of East Anglia’s Low Carbon Innovation Fund.
Stanford spin-out OneBreath raises rupees 18 crore ($2.87m) in angel backing for rechargeable ventilators.
UCLA’s ScaleFunder bought by RuffaloCody
Fundraising firm RuffaloCody acquires peer and University of California Los Angeles spin-out ScaleFunder.
IP Group doubles down on graphene
Commercialisation firm the IP Group extends agreement with Manchester to include funding for graphene products.
Maryland’s excellence in entrepreneurship
Maryland picks up Excellence in Entrepreneurship Education award from the United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship .
Warwick is UK’s most enterprising uni
The University of Warwick named as the UK’s most enterprising university by the Royal Bank of Scotland and venture firm Find Invest Grow.
Asalus clears hurdle to EU hospitals
Cardiff University life sciences spin-out Asalus Medical Instruments receives green light to begin rolling its Ultravision product across European Union hospitals.
