Fundraising

Sunstone Management has launched a fund dedicated to portfolio companies of Long Beach Accelerator, co-founded by California State University’s Long Beach campus.

Motion-to-compel fines have been served to parties from Stanford University and Stanford-StartX Fund for blocking MedWhat's discovery request in the ongoing legal case.

HKU has selected 25 university-linked businesses to receive funding from its portion of the government-funded Technology Start-up Support Scheme for Universities.

Utimco contributed to the fifth fund of Wellington Partners, which aims to back 15 to 20 life science businesses based in German-speaking countries.

Pennsylvania Biotechnology Center of Bucks County is launching a $50m fund to invest in resident startups and to help establish university spinouts.

Research Bridge’s new seed fund will back spinouts in the central US states in a move intended to plug the dearth of venture capital availability compared with clusters on the west and east coasts.

University of Oxford's fifth innovation fund is seeking investors to help propel more promising spinouts and startups from the Oxford innovation ecosystem.

Two state-run initiatives targeting publicly-funded research have awarded $17.5m to programs including University of Auckland’s commercialisation arm, as New Zealand continues its bid to bring national R&D spend to 2% of GDP over the next decade.