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Pharmaceutical firm J&J acquires Cambridge spin-out XO1 and its “holy grail” of anticoagulants.
US tech transfer adds $1.18 trillion to economy
Report highlights US tech transfer impacts, including adding $1.18 trillion to industry output, $518bn to GDP, and the creation of nearly four million jobs.
NTU spin-out NanoSun snaps up $3.1m deal with Chinese state on water treatment.
Magnomatics’ wheels roll with £2m
Sheffield spin-out Magnomatics secures £2m from IP Group and Finance Yorkshire to capitalise on hybrid electric vehicle market.
UC Davis acts on Californian drought
UC Davis spins out agritech firm Tule to tackle irrigation problems in light of California’s four-year drought.
US-Russia partnership accelerates edtech growth
US-Russia Innovation Corridor brings Russian edtech startups stateside.
MIT firm has A round in its sights
MIT spin-out GelSight closes series A for 3D information capturing platform.
Cambridge cyber defence spin-out Darktrace secures $18m from Invoke Capital and others.
Healthcare data firm Health Catalyst raises $70m in round backed by Indiana University Health’s venture arm CHV Capital.
Horowitz amped up for Berkeley’s big data
University of California Berkeley’s AmpLab spin-out Tachyon Nexus raises $7.5m series A backed by Andreessen Horowitz.
Williams takes Principal’s chair at Heriot-Watt
Heriot-Watt University names Richard Williams OBE as the institution’s principal and vice-chancellor.
Twente University spin-out Clear Flight Solutions secures $1.7m to develop robotic birds.
Universities lead healthy partnership
Pittsburgh University, its medical centre, and Carnegie Mellon partner on Pittsburgh Health Data Alliance to use data to solve health challenges to generate spin-outs.
Corporates help launch Marseille immunotechnology centre
Pharmaceutical companies Sanofi and Innate Pharma have joined a range of backers to launch a centre focused on therapies for cancer and inflammatory disease.
Energy software firm Blue Pillar attracts $14m from numerous backers including university-partnered Claremont Creek Ventures.
Michigan spin-out Sakti3 secures $20m investment from vacuum cleaner manufacturer Dyson and others.
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