Healthcare

Ahren Innovation Capital has led a $16m initial series A tranche for Mogrify, co-founded by researchers from Bristol, Monash and Duke universities.

The fund will provide capital for MIT-founded Gingko's own spinouts and has attracted LPs including Viking Global Investors, General Atlantic and Cascade Investment.

First Round's inaugural cohort includes a manga comic translation tool developer and a company working on synthetic options for creating salmon.

University of Colorado-founded IM Therapeutics has received $10m from investors including the university's Healthcare Innovation Fund to advance a treatment for type 1 diabetes.

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

Stanford University general counsel Debra Zumwalt reportedly hoped to prevent further legal filings against her and other Stanford trustees.

The Vantage Ventures incubator will aim to realise West Virginia University's goal of making West Virginia a startup powerhouse.

Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz's cancer therapy developer raised $150m despite reducing the number of shares in the IPO and floating beneath its range.