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MSU’s Student Venture Capital Fund will invest up to $50,000 in university-linked businesses with the administrative aid of MSU students taking the entrepreneurial finance course.

Applied Morphomics has formally spun out of University of Michigan to deliver a medical analytics service powered by morphological scans of patients.

Indian Institute of Technology-Delhi will launch a deep tech incubator and innovation strategy on the back of its recent success in becoming an Indian government-sponsored institute of eminence.

Oxford Brain Diagnostics hopes to commercialise an early diagnosis tool for Alzheimer’s disease pioneered through eight years of University of Oxford research.

The total raised by Oxford’s spinouts was down from $229m year-on-year, though university tech transfer office OUI also marked its largest ever single exit during the period.

Victor Christou has stepped down from his position as chief executive of Cambridge Innovation Capital just weeks after helping the unit raise $196m in additional funding.

The Brad D Smith Incubator is a partnership between the university’s Brad D Smith Schools of Business and Robert C Byrd Institute, and will welcome tenants this summer.

Jonas Bergman, Rocio Morales and Nina Röding have joined Chalmers Ventures, the investment and incubator arm of Chalmers University of Technology.