Chirp, the sonic data transfer app incubated and hatched in UCL (University College London), received investment pledges totalling over £750,000 from its Crowdcube fundraising campaign - the largest amount raised by any UK University spinout company via crowdfunding.

Following three years of intense R&D, St Andrews Instrumentation, a spin-out company from St Andrews University, has moved to a new headquarters where it will seek to commercialise a range of acoustic technologies. 

An Oxford university spin-out company has raised £205 million in the biggest private financing for a life sciences business in Europe. Read article (Subscription required) 

Imperial College's incubator has attracted more than £750m investment since it was set up in 2006, and supported more than 200 jobs.

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