Oxford Flow, a UK-based pressure valve manufacturing spinout from Oxford University, secured £6m ($8.4m) yesterday in a round featuring the university and its venturing fund Oxford Sciences Innovation (OSI).

Investment firm Parkwalk Advisors led the round, with commitments from trade organisation Institute of Mechanical Engineering, T Capital Management, RT Capital Management, Thompson Taraz and angel investor Simon Henry.

Oxford Flow makes pressure regulation valves used by water and gas distributors to temper the force of inward fluids to the desired output…