IU Philanthropic Venture Fund has committed $500,000 to a $2.2m bridge round for Nerx Biosciences, based on research at Indiana University.

Rogue Venture Partners, whose largest limited partner is Oregon State University, has led a $3.7m funding round for Lensabl.

Quark Venture and GF Securities have invested $1.9m in Sitka Biopharma, a spinout of University of British Columbia and Centre for Drug Research and Development.

HTGF has participated in a seed round for Kumovis, a spinout of Technical University of Munich that is working on 3D printers for medical technology.

University of Washington has established RNA sequencing technology developer Split Biosciences, which has raised $1.2m in seed funding from unnamed investors.

UC Berkeley SkyDeck has partnered TSMC, Cadence and SiFive to launch an accelerator track aimed at semiconductor technology developers called Chip Track.

Cass Entrepreneurship Fund has returned to back a $3.9m funding round for Raremark, which is working on delivering precision medicine for patients suffering from rare diseases.

The Csiro Innovation Fund has invested $890,000 in RapidAim, co-founded by three Csiro researchers, to support a trial of a fruit fly monitoring system.

Mercia Technologies has returned to back Locate Bio's pursuit of orthopaedic therapies based on research at University of Nottingham.

Michigan materials spinout Ecovia Renewables has secured capital from the university's Mints fund to take its total to $1.6m.