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Qualcomm co-founder’s gifts to Israel
Andrew Viterbi, co-founder of Qualcomm, offers $50m to Technion University.
Bloomberg donates $100m to Cornell campus
Ex-mayor of New York Michael Bloomberg makes $100m gift towards Cornell’s $2bn campus.
Washington spin-out Vicis raises $1.6m to bring American football concussion-reduced helmet to market.
Northwestern firm swipes $9.7m
Northwestern hand sanitizer startup SwipeSense secures $9.7m.
Microsoft invests in home grown computing talent
Microsoft offers up $10m to Washington University to extend the institution’s computing department.
Janssen excites Queensland’s molecules
J&J subsidiary Janssen partners Queensland’s TTO UniQuest on small molecule modulator research.
GSK treats new startups to funding
Adrenergics, CadheRx and Calporta are each set to receive up to $10m in series A funding from GlaxoSmithKline and Avalon Ventures.
Edinburgh looks smart for awards
Seven Edinburgh teams collectively awarded nearly £900,000 to commercialise ideas via Scottish Enterprise.
Strem Chemicals licenses out synthetic catalyst from Canberra which will boost efficiency in Ritalin manufacturing.
Duolingo speaks Google’s language
Carnegie Mellon linguistics spin-out Duolingo secures $45m series D from Google Capital.
PowWow over water leads to $3m funding
PowWow Energy secures $3m for its water use efficiency SaaS from California Energy Commission competition backed by California universities.
Oxford University’s planned medical research hub gets approval from planners.
Osaka University venturing gets approval
Osaka University gets the green light to invest ¥10bn into its recently created venture capital arm.
Arizona’s mill churns out startups
Arizona State launches accelerator to bring incubator services across campus to wider ecosystem.
Fluidic Analytics flows upstream
Cambridge spin-out Fluidic Analytics secures £250k award from Innovate UK.
Menlo’s stealth attack on malware
Berkeley cybersecurity spin-out Menlo emerges from stealth with $25m series B to target malware.
Chaac makes first moves at Princeton
Princeton-focused seed fund Chaac Ventures names SaaS firm Locent as first investment.
Madrona Venture Group raises $300m in sixth fund backed by university endowments and others.
Hennessy to step down as head of Stanford
Stanford president John Hennessy announces that he will vacate his position in 2016.
CMU gets $31m entrepreneurship gift
Accel Partners co-founder James Swartz provides $31m to Carnegie Mellon to fund entrepreneurship centre.
Johns Hopkins spin-out Gemstone Biotherapeutics secures $2.45m seed round for wound treatments.
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