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

Partly based on University of Bern research, Synendos aims to restore the endocannabinoid system to treat dysfunction in the central nervous system.

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

Based on Aalto University and VTT research, IQM Quantum Computers has lured investors including Tencent to bring its equity and grant funding total to $83.9m.

Julius-Maximilians-University of Würzburg's cancer immunotherapy developer Catalym plans to move its lead asset into the clinic next month.

University of Bristol-linked Graphcore is reportedly seeking $200m at a $2bn-plus valuation, in a deal that would bring its total to $660m.

The world’s number one incubator has been making a big impact since 2002, having supported more than 4,000 entrepreneurs that have raised more than $2.2bn between them.

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.