The anti-fraud technology provider, co-founded by CAE faculty, has received $50.7m in a round led by VMS Investment Group that was also backed by existing investor Legend Capital.

Cambridge Innovation Capital and Parkwalk Advisors have both returned to back a $32.6m series B round for Cytora, an insurance technology spinout of Cambridge.

Congruent Ventures has led a $2.5m funding round for Energetic Insurance, which hopes to enable SMEs to tap into the solar energy market.

OUI’s first social enterprise spinout, Sophia Oxford, will implement a multidimensional poverty index and standards intended to help corporates respond to the needs of workforces.

Utec joined Dentsu in the fine art providence blockchain creator’s latest round, after supplying $900,000 of seed capital in July 2018.

University of Tokyo’s Utec has extended its foray into Indian VC investments by starting an accelerator in partnership with local venture fund Blume Ventures.

Listings Ledger has spun out from the university to commercialise a real-time valuation ticker for privately-owned companies.

An undisclosed endowment has signed up to a $40m cryptocurrency-focused fund managed by Morgan Creek Digital Assets that will make seed-stage and token-based investments.

Founded out of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, SendFriend has built a blockchain-powered online payment transfer platform that uses technology provided by fintech developer Ripple.

UC Berkeley will offer participants up to $200,000 from its X-Fund as it looks to build a blockchain ecosystem connecting resources from university departments, Silicon Valley and further afield.