This week's regular roundup.
Bill Gates joins $108m round for Stanford firm making meat from plants, Aberdeen’s TauRx secures a massive $135m in its battle against Alzheimer’s, and the Delft-backed Mainport fund gets another $20m.
Corporates help $20m MIF II take off
KLM and Schiphol have backed a second Mainport Innovation Fund, alongside Delft University of Technology, Port of Amsterdam and NS Dutch Railways.
TauRx targets dementia with $135m round
Aberdeen spinout TauRx raises $135m to bring its dementia treatment through Phase 3 trials.
New Zealand’s PreSeed Accelerator Fund demonstrates decade of impact in review.
Theraclone forms OncoResponse with $9.5m
Theraclone Sciences and University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center have jointly formed the oncology startup, which has raised $9.5m in series A capital.
The cybersecurity software company has attracted capital from investors including corporates General Electric and Deutsche Telekom.
Gates joins $108m search for impossible burger
Bill Gates among investors in $108m series D for Stanford spinout Impossible Foods, which is looking to make meat from plants.
Student financial aid self-service platform CampusLogic brings in $7.5m for its series A.
GeoSpock to live long and prosper with $5.4m
Cambridge spinout GeoSpock secures $5.4m to become the Google of big data.
Maynooth opens doors to facility to woo industry
Maynooth University opens €20.6m building designed to increase links with industry.
Colorado’s spinout receives precise $33.6m
Colorado spinout Precision Biopsy raises $33.6m for biopsy technology commercialisation with help of Woodford and Allied Minds.
Bio-propane spinout seeks industrial partners
Manchester spinout C3 Biotechnologies looks for corporates to help it develop bio-propane technologies.
