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UC Berkeley-focused House Fund II has raised $44m from investors including endowments for the university and the wider University of California ecosystem.

University of Bristol-founded Psiquantum has reportedly scooped funding from backers including an Andy Rubin fund as it looks to develop silicon-powered quantum computers.

Atlantic Bridge led a round for NUI Galway-founded organisational data investigation spinout Siren, having backed the company's seed round through its University Bridge Fund.

Returning investors Temasek and Scottish Investment Bank returned to back Edinburgh spinout PureLifi's series B round and bring the company's funding total to $29.5m.

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

In addition to launching a corporate venture capital fund, Daikin has inked a deal with University of Tokyo to drive the formation of spinouts.

Academic research towards quantum computing and other quantum technologies is beginning to pay dividends, but continued progress will rely on strong cooperation between academic, industry and government partners.

Steady is the assessment that comes to mind, rather than remarkable, when probing the year-on-year direction of corporate venture capital investment in university spinouts.

Isis Innovation's Rakesh Roshan investigates the looming age of quantum computing.