A round up of all the latest news on www.globaluniversityventuring.com for our subscribers.
SMU forges incubator space
The incubator will provide external networking opportunities through its location within a Dallas facility operated by Foundry Club.
La Terza to lead tech transfer at GSU
Vincent La Terza has been promoted to associate vice-president of research and director of technology transfer and commercialisation at Georgia State.
EDRF backs Bath accelerators
Bath accelerators targeting digital innovation and advanced engineering have secured $2.1m in grant funding.
Warwick and Belfast seek iCure
Warwick and Queen’s University Belfast will administer iCure’s expansion in the UK alongside regional commercialisation offices Midlands Innovation and Midlands Enterprise Universities.
Kairos engages with Purdue’s pipeline
Purdue and Kairos have signed a commercialisation pact which supports the VC firm’s emphasis on university research.
Rice University orchestrates $100m Houston hub
The scheme will convert a former retail unit to revitalise Houston’s entrepreneurial image, with a focus on energy, healthcare, data and logistics.
Imperial-led accelerator wins $7m CCF backing
MedTech Super Connector becomes the latest multi-university scheme to secure CCF funds, this time to build a UK medtech hub that encourages researchers to commercialise their ideas.
Arizona probes Omniscient for commercialisation
Omniscient has developed a dual-view endoscope for conducting colonoscopies that could detect pre-cancerous growths currently missed by front-facing devices.
Numat structures $12.4m investment
Osage University Partners was among the backers in Numat, which is developing molecularly engineered products based on research at Northwestern University.
3F Bio dishes up $8.6m series A
The government-owned Scottish Investment Bank has returned to pour more funding into Strathclyde mycoprotein spinout 3F Bio.
Aaltonen ends StartAD job
Erkki Aaltonen spent two years as executive director of StartAD, New York University Abu Dhabi’s seed investor, and will be replaced by Robyn Brazzil.
CMU and Sony cook up research deal
Sony’s Seed Acceleration Program and its Sony Innovation Fund unit will assist Carnegie Mellon University alongside a research deal focusing on food preparation technology.
Imperial visualises GraphicsFuzz
GraphicsFuzz will launch a security testing tool for graphics drivers to catch potential flaws using a metamorphic approach.
Corporates beam funding to Oxford PV
Existing backers Legal and General Capital and Statoil Energy Ventures have returned for an $11.2m round that took the University of Oxford spinout’s total funding to $77m.
NuProbe finds $11m in series A
Harvard University has spun out NuProbe to commercialise a molecular blood test based on research by Peng Yin and David Zhang at the Wyss Institute.
Optical Comb measures $11.8m series B
The optical frequency spinout from Tokyo Institute of Technology has secured series B funding from investors including the institution’s Innovations and Future Creation fund.
Deal net: 23 – 27 April 2018
The Global University Venturing deal net rounds up all the latest smaller deals and tracks emerging companies accessing university funds.
