OSU spinout Agility Robotics has raised $8m for robotic legs that are set to enhance the usefulness of robots for military or courier purposes.

The electric bicycle drive manufacturer has been backed by Unternehmertum Venture Capital Partners.

The capital will help push development of the Cornell University spinout's copolymer-based materials for nanofabrication.

Carnegie Mellon spinout Voci will use the money to bolster sales and marketing activities.

The MIT spinout formerly known as Baseload Renewables hopes its lithium-sulphur battery could offer a sustainable energy source.

The Global University Venturing deal net rounds up all the latest smaller deals and tracks emerging companies accessing university funds.

Based on research conducted at Caltech and Nasa, Virtualitics has now raised more than $11m in funding for its VR data visualisation and analytics platform.