
Tokyo telemedicine spinout Miup has been backed by Beyond Next Ventures in its bid to build an AI-powered healthcare ecosystem in Bangladesh.
The funding from crowdfunding platform SyndicateRoom is part of a wider series B round for Manchester gel therapy developer Gelmetix and adds to approximately $1.3m raised in 2014 and 2015.
Crowdfunding platform Readyfor has unveiled its first funding round, with investors including Globis, since launching from the wings of Tokyo internet services spinout Ohma in 2014.
Osaka University and Kyoto Institute of Polymer Science have both put money behind automated patent investigation platform Gold IP, taking its funding to $4.6m altogether.
University of Tokyo-founded VC firm Deep 30 has pumped money into apparel industry services provider Liaro, which will use the cash to ramp up recruitment and R&D.
Emesent spun out from Csiro earlier this year to market an underground drone that could help mining firms build an improved picture of their operations.
University of Auckland’s commercialisation arm is among the latest backers for drone technology developer Dotterel, which raised approximately $500,000 last year.
Longwall Ventures has led a $2.8m seed round for University of Oxford’s newest spinout, quantum technologies-based sensor technology developer Oxford HighQ.
Idea Fund has provided seed capital for SciArt Software, a spinout of Wisconsin-Madison that has developed a weight reduction tool for engineering structures.
Oxford spinout Argonaut Therapeutics has received $2.6m from JW Pharmaceuticals in return for a 25% stake.