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RapidAim hits funding target
19th October 2018
Thierry Heles
The Csiro Innovation Fund has invested $890,000 in RapidAim, co-founded by three Csiro researchers, to support a trial of a fruit fly monitoring system.
Oh My Green tosses together $20m
18th October 2018
Callum Cyrus
Stanford-Start X Fund has put its weight behind Oh My Green's seed round, which also attracted a host of venture capital firms.
Amgen inserts $66m into Oxford Nanopore
18th October 2018
Thierry Heles
Oxford Nanopore has secured $66m from Amgen, after the latter’s subsidiary Decode Genetics used the spinout’s technology to sequence hundreds of human genomes.
Berkeley Lights attracts Nikon for $95m round
17th October 2018
Rob Lavine
The cell biology technology developer, based on UC Berkeley research, took its total funding to almost $220m in a Nikon-led round that included fellow strategic backer Varian.
Locate Bio pinpoints $660,000 round
17th October 2018
Callum Cyrus
Mercia Technologies has returned to back Locate Bio's pursuit of orthopaedic therapies based on research at University of Nottingham.
Kahoot loots funding at $300m valuation
16th October 2018
Rob Lavine
Datum Invest has led a $15.3m round for educational game platform Kahoot, which is the result of research at Norwegian University of Technology and Science.
UBEF II carries funding to Vitamica
16th October 2018
Callum Cyrus
University of Bristol Enterprise Fund II has backed antibiotic diagnostics developer Vitamica, which spun out of the university’s school of physics in January 2018.
Ecovia clears up $500,000 seed round
15th October 2018
Callum Cyrus
Michigan materials spinout Ecovia Renewables has secured capital from the university's Mints fund to take its total to $1.6m.

Other News

Boeing drops into MIT’s Accion Systems
15th October 2018
Callum Cyrus
Based on research at MIT, Accion Systems has received corporate backing from Boeing to develop more nimble and efficient propulsion for spacecraft.
Breethe inhales $3.5m
15th October 2018
Callum Cyrus
University of Maryland-founded artificial lung developer Breethe is targeting $5m for its latest round after previously raising approximately $7.8m.
Garrison rallies for $30m
15th October 2018
Callum Cyrus
Cybersecurity technology developer Garrison has received $5m from IP Group after being backed by Touchstone in 2015 and 2017.
Covatic covets $1.1m investment
11th October 2018
Callum Cyrus
Oxford spinout Covatic has now raised $2.1m in funding for a software platform that enables media broadcasters to tailor mobile content and marketing to the habits of specific users.
Nanosive heats up Truffle Capital investment
9th October 2018
Callum Cyrus
Sun protection product developer Nanosive has been launched by Truffle Capital with a licence from Yale University.
Adranos takes off with $800,000
8th October 2018
Callum Cyrus
The 2016 Purdue spinout has been backed by angel investor Archibald Cox and the Ustar Tap accelerator as it seeks US defence agency-adoption for its missile propellant.

Editor's Picks

University Ventures looks to online future
18th December 2012
Gregg Bayes-Brown
Higher education investment fund University Ventures is to invest in its own startup.
MOOCs: The British are coming
17th December 2012
Gregg Bayes-Brown
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).
Cell Medica raises $26.5m
25th July 2012
Toby Lewis
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.
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