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Spun out of Boston University by Allied Minds in December last year, Signature Medical has secured $2.5m in series A funding from investors including Bose.
Rodeo Therapeutics has developed therapies to regenerate tissue, based on research undertaken at Case Western Reserve University and University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center.
Bright.md, the provider of a virtual healthcare service backed by StartX, has raised $8m in its latest funding round.
IP Group has upped its bid for Touchstone to $640m and gained the approval of Imperial College London, making a takeover more likely.
IP Group has participated in a $1.7m funding round for Eight19, a solar panel technology spinout of the Cambridge-backed Advanced Photovoltaic Research Accelerator.
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.
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