Satt Aquitaine-founded TreeFrog has now raised $11.1m in equity and grant funding, having secured follow-on contributions from investors including the tech transfer office.

Warf-backed 4490 Ventures has returned to supply funding to weather analytics service Understory in support of the latter’s international expansion and recruitment strategy.

Sales productivity software platform Ciara has won the backing of TUM-allied venture firm UVC Partners in a round that will support continued development of its software.

Sioux Technologies co-led SamanTree’s series A round, which will support marketing of the EPFL spinout’s subcellular resolution microscopy scanner for surgical cancer interventions.

TUM automated legal analysis spinout Rfrnz has secured backing from Unternehmertum-operated Initiative for Industrial Innovations, HTGF and unnamed additional investors.

A consortium involving public-private partnership HTGF has supplied funding to University of Bremen spinout Mirdetect to help a molecular diagnostics blood draw for testicular cancer.

Inspection robot manufacturer Invert Robotics was founded out of University of Canterbury in 2011 and has now secured corporate Yamaha Motor as an investor in its latest round.

Johns Hopkins University has invested in medical transport booking platform Roundtrip, a graduate of JHU-backed accelerator M-1 Ventures.

Co-founded by a former UChicago research director, surgery workflow software provider Explorer Surgical has increased its total funding to $9m.

Cambridge-founded chemicals products maker Aqdot has welcomed the return of IP Group and Parkwalk Advisors in its latest round, taking its funding total to $16.5m.