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TUM spinout Kiutra has secured seed funding to ramp up operations for its cyrogenic cooling technology, which it regards as the answer to the problem of industrial-scale quantum manufacturing.

University of Tsukuba-founded submarine drone maker FullDepth secured capital from investors including Sumitomo Forestry’s Tsukuba Research Institute and Mitsui Sumitomo Capital.

Mercia Technologies has returned to back Warwick-founded medtech spinout Medherant, which is preparing to advance its adhesive Tepi Patch technology through the clinic.

Free-roam VR experience technology company Holodeck VR has been backed by ProSiebenSat.1 Media, raising the prospect of business development collaborations with the corporate's television networks.

Stanford-backed student support platform UpSwing has added $2m from investors including Impact America Fund to take its total to approximately $5m.

Cambridge open source hardware spinout LowRisc has been backed by Alphabet's Google, which has sent two representatives to its board of directors.

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

Higher education investment fund University Ventures is to invest in its own startup.

Futurelearn, a platform free-to-access Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), has been launched by a consortium of UK-based universities, led by distance-learning provider The Open University (OU).

Invesco Perpetual, the fund manager, and Imperial Innovations, the London Stock Exchange-listed spin-off from Imperial College London, are joined by The Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas and the Wellcome Trust supporting Cell Medica's growth.