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CSIRO-founded Main Sequence Ventures has pocketed $194m for its second fund, which has added decarbonisation to the firm’s list of targeted technologies.

Based on research at MIT, LiquiGlide has brought its overall funding to $50m following a $13.5m round.

The oat milk brand, which has filed for a $100m offering in the US, traces its origins back to Lund University in the 1990s.

MaC Venture Capital has raised its inaugural seed fund thanks to limited partners including University of Michigan and Howard University.

Originally known as Cambridge Crops, the MIT and Tufts-linked company has added $16m to its coffers.

Nine institutions have joined Generation Food Rural Partners, joining inaugural collaborator NC State announced earlier this year.

Cellular Agriculture was spun out of University of Bath in 2016 as the UK’s first startup in the cultured meat space, but its ambitions go far beyond a lab-grown burger.

The company has committed $100m to the Catalyst Fund for early-stage start-ups, which may be available to university startups.

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