OSU-founded cybersecurity business DatAnchor has officially launched with an undisclosed sum from the multi-university-backed Ohio Innovation Fund, and Dundee Venture Capital.

Purdue’s Trask Innovation Fund has committed $50,000 each to short-term research projects into sodium-ion batteries and a handheld plant scanner, in addition to $21,000 for a data security project.

Animal health product developer Bactana is advancing Cornell University research into probiotics that could lead to improved vitality for livestock including cattle, swine and poultry.

Machine tools supplier Trumpf has put funding behind Eyewear Tech to commercialise an eye tracking platform based on Idiap Research Institute and EPFL technology.

Magnitude Biosciences started operations in September 2018 to commercialise a Durham University ageing research technology centred on the C.elegans nematode worm.

The seven-digit investment by BE Beteiligungen Fonds will help Salzburg e-commerce search spinout Findologic accelerate its international expansion and introduce new product features.

EPFL-founded exhaust filtering system spinout Daphne Technology has been backed by investors including oil producer Saudi Aramco.

Plant sciences startups Heliponix and Karyosoft each secured $50,000 investments after winning the fifth cohort of Purdue’s Ag-celerator competition.

Partly based on Polytechnic University of Valencia research, Kerionics hopes to commercialise a ceramic membrane-based system for producing industrial quantities of oxygen from waste gases.

Chalmers Ventures has invested more funding in human resources app developer Winningtemp, which is preparing its employee wellbeing software for international expansion.