Osage University Partners has added MicroTransponder to a small but mightly portfolio of medical device companies.
Ascenion and Goethe University Frankfurt are among the initiators of Carma Fund I, which will help start up and fund early life science projects.
Chalmers spinout Elypta is working on a metabolism-based liquid biopsy for early cancer detection that it hopes will catch any type of the disease.
Orphan CNS therapy developer Minoryx Therapeutics closed a $54.8m series C and MIT's The Engine co-led a $10.5m seed round for Foundation Alloy.
Evotec has bought University of Modena and Reggio Emilia spinout Rigenerand for $24.7m.
ZGT has raised $48m from Tsinghua Holdings Capital, CAS Star and others, while University of Cambridge spinout Colorifix has pocketed $22.7m.
The Global University Venturing deal net rounds up the smaller investments from across the university innovation ecosystem.
A roundup of exits, including IPOs and acquisitions, across the tech transfer ecosystem.
The Global University Venturing deal net rounds up the smaller investments from across the university innovation ecosystem.
UVC Partners has taken part in the round, which will allow Finn to expand further across the US while bolstering its market position in Europe.
The research institute has been joined by limited partners ranging from Philips to Brabantse Ontwikkelings Maatschappij, with a minimum target size set at $107m.
Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology has partnered Lifetime Ventures to raise a deep tech-focused fund with a target size of $40m.
A roundup of exits, including IPOs and acquisitions, across the tech transfer ecosystem.
The Global University Venturing deal net rounds up the smaller investments from across the university innovation ecosystem.
MIT spinout Commonwealth Fusion Systems has raised the largest funding round yet for a nuclear fusion developer with investors including The Engine.
Less than a year after raising $72.6m in its series A round, Aerovate Therapeutics has gone public following an IPO worth more than $121m.
Cellular Agriculture was spun out of University of Bath in 2016 as the UK’s first startup in the cultured meat space, but its ambitions go far beyond a lab-grown burger.
Academic research towards quantum computing and other quantum technologies is beginning to pay dividends, but continued progress will rely on strong cooperation between academic, industry and government partners.
Global University Venturing is a quarterly magazine and website written for and about universities taking stakes in the spinout companies of staff and students. We help universities to share best practice and to connect with each other, with investors and with other useful parties in the innovation ecosystem. Our aim is to help improve the processes of bringing innovations from academia to the market and facilitate their integration into the business ecosystem.
