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Sharpen phones IU in $15m round IU Philanthropic Venture Fund was among the investors in the contact centre platform creator’s round, which will help grow the business through recruitment and product development. Yunhu delivers series A-plus The medical research services provider collected funding from investors including Cash Capital, an investment arm of CAS which previously backed a series A. Phasecraft executes funding Based on UCL and Bristol research, Phasecraft is a member of a UK government-backed quantum collaboration driven by both universities together with the Google Quantum AI Lab. Gencove adds $3m to funding sequence New York Genome Center-founded Gencove has added $3m from investors including Alexandria Venture Investments to bring its genomics testing kit to new markets. Well Doc recuperates with $1.6m Scotiabank has supplied University of Calgary-affiliated Well Doc Alberta with funding under a pact signed when it bought MD Financial Management last year. FanFood munches on $2m The series A round reportedly featured UCLA Ventures, with the cash going towards expanding the business and technology for FanFood’s events concession app. Parkwalk shifts return in Animal Dynamics Parkwalk Advisors has sold on most of its stake in Oxford-founded drone designer Animal Dynamics, securing a 6.9 times return. Washington pays tribute to Jandhyala UW’s president and community acknowledged the legacy of vice-president of innovation strategy Vikram Jandhyala, who has passed away aged 47. Harvard opens Lab1636 with $100m Harvard has partnered Deerfield to launch commercialisation firm Lab1636 with $100m in funding in order to advance life science projects towards the clinic and establish spinouts. Osage University Partners closes $273m fund OUP has closed an oversubscribed third fund that it expects will invest in 40 to 50 spinouts, primarily originating from 19 core partner institutions. UW Health brings forth Isthmus The accelerator will support up to 12 health projects at a time, led by innovators including UW Health faculty and with resources provided by four partners including Warf. Yale endowment widens VC outlay VC assets accounted for 19% of Yale’s endowment portfolio by June 2018 compared with 13.7% four years previously, as resources shifted away from leveraged buyouts and real estate. Garwood to spark $3m series B Garwood Medical Devices is developing two therapeutic electrode-powered products based on licences from University of Buffalo, having last raised $3.6m in 2016. Conduit sources MIT connection MIT spinout Conduit was founded in 2017 to commercialise a decentralised cloud computing concept drawing upon the spare processing resources of IT clusters. PolyAI understands $12m series…

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