Innoetics, a text-to-speech developer based on research at Athena, has been acquired by Samsung in the highest value exit of a Greek spinout in decades.

The Jerusalem Innovation Incubator is set to obtain $25m from Reliance Industries, which helped launch the project last month alongside Yissum and others.

Deakin University has joined forces with Dimension Data to establish a cybersecurity accelerator in Melbourne.

Osage University has contributed to a $9.2m series A round for Corelight, a cybersecurity company co-founded by UC Berkeley professor Vern Paxson.

Touchstone Innovations has contributed $4m to the round, which also included fellow existing shareholders Robert Bosch Venture Capital and Octopus Investments.

Datatron, which has developed a platform that allows companies to gain insight into complex historical and real-time datasets, has raised money from investors such as StartX.

NYU Ventures has contributed to a $1.5m seed round for Vidcode, co-founded by an alumna from the university.

Safran Corporate Ventures joined the fibre optic technology developer's existing investors for a $5.7m round that will support international sales.

The semiconductor manufacturing component maker secured $23.5m, with Samsung Ventures, JSR Corporation, Aliad, Applied Ventures and Intel Capital all investing.

Osage University Partners has taken part in a funding round for Lastline, a cybersecurity technology developer based on research at multi-university initiative iSecLab.