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Retrium, which last attracted more than $1m in 2017, was founded by University of Maryland, College Park graduates to market a collaborative platform for software development teams.

Innovate UK and Longwall Ventures have put up seed capital for Warwick-founded Verdel Instruments, which hopes to commercialise a benchtop-sized lab instrument for conducting two-dimensional mass spectrometry.

Purdue Ag-celerator Fund has injected capital into farming robot developer Rogo Ag, which is aiming to make farming more efficient by reducing errors in soil sampling.

Kytopen, the developer of a cell therapy manufacturing platform based on MIT research, has been backed by MIT’s The Engine for a second time.

UVC Partners has returned to back TUM battery management software spinout Twaice's latest seed round, after featuring in the company's inaugural transaction in September 2018.

Biotech developers Animated Dynamics, Predictive Wear and Brightlamp have all secured commitments worth up to $250,000 from Foundry Investment Fund.

Sheffield spin-out Magnomatics raises $4m for its magnetic gear technology.

The Oxford University spin-out set up by its technology transfer office raises the funds at the same time as winning a development award from the UK's National Health Service.

Caltech and Pennsylvania back on-line teaching company Coursera, which just won the praise of Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates.