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Companies formed to commercialize research and technology developed at universities, often backed by university-affiliated venture funds.
Europe's €500 million Choose Europe for Science package is about 0.3% of the up to $177 billion in US federal grants cut. US researchers' applications to European programmes number in the hundreds, so the talent employers can count today is a small academic intake.
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The UC Berkeley spin-out's Form D reports $19,428,895 sold against a $32.4 million target, and $7.4 million of that came from converted securities, leaving about $12 million the filing does not break out as cash.
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Years of cancer trials that boosted antioxidants failed, so a University of Vermont team tried stripping mesothelioma cells of one antioxidant enzyme instead, and an early-phase trial reports disease control in two-thirds of patients.
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Kobe University's group reports glossy, non-iridescent coatings that hold their hue under a protective top coat, and projects an airliner's paint weight falling from several hundred kilograms to several hundred grams.
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TQ Ventures and Sheryl Sandberg's family office put $4m behind a Munich battery-software spin-off whose 800 customers average 7.5 sites each, and how much of that footprint trades live is not broken out.
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Imperial's model caught up to 81% of heart failure cases in a 67,000-patient US trial. The claim is superhuman detection. The job it is being sold for is re-ordering an echo waiting list that runs to months.
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Certain Energy's Series A rests on a UK constraint-payment forecast of £8bn a year by 2030. The two curtailment figures in the same account differ by a factor of three.
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The Edinburgh photon-counting sensor spinout added an ex-Arm CTO to its board. Its CEO says 2025 sales nearly doubled and break-even is close, on just over $3M raised in total.
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