
Today's deal net contains news from Nexthink, Metalenz, Grapheal, CellulaRevolution and Astrata.
Stanford spinout Bolt Biotherapeutics has raised more than twice as much as originally planned in an offering that also provided exits for corporates Pfizer, Novo and Fan Fung.
Harvard-linked Sana brought in nearly four times as much in proceeds as originally planned and saw shares surge 40% on the first day of trading.
Virginia Tech spinout Landos Biopharma priced its shares at $16 to raise $100m and will use proceeds to advance the development of two treatments for inflammatory bowel disease.
Every day, Global University Venturing rounds up the smaller investments from across the university innovation ecosystem in its deal net.
NC State is the first of a planned five academic partners to benefit from on-campus commercialisation experts and access to capital.
The Engine has co-led by $16m seed round for Cellino, which is working on a process to automate the generation of stem cells at scale.
PreSeed Ventures-backed Vivino runs a wine recommendation platform and has raised $155m in a series D round after adding 21 million users in three years.
Additive manufacturing Uniformity Labs has raised $38.4m to advance additive manufacturing technology developed at Princeton University.
Kindred Ventures has attracted university endowments for its second fund, building on the successes of its $56m debut vehicle launched just two years ago.