UChicago Startup Investment Program is among a group of backers that provided $47m to support the launch of a Florida-focused home insurance carrier, the first of Kin's subsidiaries to underwrite its own policies.

GV was among the investors for Stanford-backed online life insurance provider Ethos's latest round, which brought the its total funding to more than $106m.

MIT grid battery spinout Form Energy has secured capital from investors including The Engine and Eni to bring its funding haul to nearly $50m.

Kyushu University's Qu Ventures has supported a series A round for robot-equipped consumer goods delivery service Starship Technologies.

Osage University Partners is among the series B investors backing Virginia Tech-linked IBD therapy disease developer Landos Biopharma, which is preparing phase 2 trials.

The spinout has revealed it added approximately $6m to a series A round backed by University of Pennsylvania and IP Group last year, bringing its total size to about $59m.

Allied Minds has returned again for a series B round that took the firm's geospatial data analytics technology subsidiary's total funding to about $96m.

Novo, Partners Healthcare and Sham all contributed to a $74.6m round for Alizé Pharma 3, which is exploiting research from three US institutions.

UTokyo IPC, Keio Innovation Initiative and Innovations and Future Creation have contributed to a $79.7m series A that increased the Tokyo spinout's total funding to about $100m.

Harvard Medical School spinout TScan has come out of stealth with $48m in funding provided by investors including GV and two Novartis units.