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Cambridge Innovation Capital has hauled in $1.3bn for the local ecosystem since 2013 as the fund marks a $52.2m portfolio gain for its latest six-month reporting period.

Every day, Global University Venturing rounds up the smaller investments from across the university innovation ecosystem in its deal net.

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.

Every day, Global University Venturing rounds up the smaller investments from across the university innovation ecosystem in its deal net.

KU Leuven and Wellcome Trust will pilot a tech transfer scheme equipping early-stage scientific research with mentoring, prototyping and regulatory assistance.

Every day, Global University Venturing rounds up the smaller investments from across the university innovation ecosystem in its deal net.

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.

Goldwind, Legal & General and Equinor have all taken part in a series D that achieved a $41m first close and boosted the Oxford spinout’s total equity and debt to more than $118m.

ICL vascular implant spinout Veryan Medical has been bought by medical device firm Otsuka after raising $56m from investors including IP Group.

Orchard Therapeutics has listed in the US following a $200m initial public offering that came just three years after the gene therapy developer was spun out of UCL.