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Universities hit Material Impact for $110m fund
Unnamed university endowments have put funding into Material Impact’s inaugural vehicle, which will incubate materials businesses including spinouts in industries such as energy, transportation and healthcare.
Cabaletta Bio engineers $38m series A
Penn spinout Cabaletta Bio’s first funding round includes university investment and it will use the cash to develop T-cell drugs for autoimmune diseases including pemphigus vulgaris.
Dotterel Technologies rings up $670,000
University of Auckland’s commercialisation arm is among the latest backers for drone technology developer Dotterel, which raised approximately $500,000 last year.
Emesent maps out $2.5m in funding
Emesent spun out from Csiro earlier this year to market an underground drone that could help mining firms build an improved picture of their operations.
Forescout successfully tracks SecurityMatters in $113m deal
Forescout Technologies has paid approximately $113m to acquire operational technology security provider and University of Twente spinout SecurityMatters.
Origin layers $10m in series A funding
Previously backed by Stanford University, Origin has now raised a total of $12.3m to support its modular and interoperable approach to 3D printing.
Liaro squeezes into $530,000 round
University of Tokyo-founded VC firm Deep 30 has pumped money into apparel industry services provider Liaro, which will use the cash to ramp up recruitment and R&D.
Gold IP patents $3.6m series B
Osaka University and Kyoto Institute of Polymer Science have both put money behind automated patent investigation platform Gold IP, taking its funding to $4.6m altogether.
Readyfor fires up $4.7m round
Crowdfunding platform Readyfor has unveiled its first funding round, with investors including Globis, since launching from the wings of Tokyo internet services spinout Ohma in 2014.
Spin Memory turns to corporates to raise $52m
Memory technology supplier and New York University spinout Spin Memory has secured $52m in a round featuring Applied Ventures and Arm.
Poynt takes $100m series C payment
Backed by Stanford-Start X Fund and a trio of corporates, Poynt has now received more than $128m in total for its payment processing terminal and software business.
USC’s Marshall Fund books Engage
USC Marshall Venture Fund supplied an undisclosed amount of pre-seed funding for talent booking platform Engage, which was founded by two USC students.
Duel meets UBEF II for investment
SetSquared member Duel has added UBEF II to investors including London Co-Investment Fund as it looks to drive adoption of its advocacy marketing platform.
Amal Therapeutics amplifies series B round
Boehringer Ingelheim and Helsinn helped University of Geneva vaccine spinout Amal reach the second close of a series B round that now totals $32.7m.
Kebotix collects $5m
Kebotix has emerged from Harvard University with backing from investors including Baidu to commercialise an automated approach to discovering new materials and molecules.
Gelmetix gets $1.5m in series B round
The funding from crowdfunding platform SyndicateRoom is part of a wider series B round for Manchester gel therapy developer Gelmetix and adds to approximately $1.3m raised in 2014 and 2015.
Crossword looks to Aim for clues
The cybersecurity commercialisation firm hopes to raise $2.9m through an Aim placement and will use the funding for product development, working capital, sales and marketing.
University Ventures enrols in Unicaf’s latest round
Online higher education platform Unicaf has raised series B funding from a consortium also including Goldman Sachs, EdX and CDC Group as it gears up to target more students.
Miup absorbs $890,000
Tokyo telemedicine spinout Miup has been backed by Beyond Next Ventures in its bid to build an AI-powered healthcare ecosystem in Bangladesh.
Animal Dynamics squares $7.7m series A
OSI is among the investors in drone developer Animal Dynamics’ latest round, which will help it develop products based on aerodynamics from the animal kingdom.
Louisville sues spinout over loan
University of Louisville Foundation alleges its spinout pharmacogenetics spinout PGxL was unable to repay a loan it had guaranteed after the business fell into bankruptcy.
Camel-IDS calls in $42m
Vrije Universiteit Brussel’s Camel-IDS collected funding from investors including Novo for a radiation-based oncology platform that will initially target Her2-positive brain metastatic breast cancer.