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Regulatory support for Choroideremia treatment from Nightstar

11th March 2015

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Nightstar, a spin-out from the University of Oxford in 2014 has received both U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and European Medicines Agency (EMA) Orphan Drug Designation for its lead programme, a gene therapy to treat Choroideremia, an X-linked recessive disorder that leads to progressive blindness.

TheySay – the Zeitgeist in the Machine

10th March 2015

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TheySay, spun out by Oxford University Innovation in 2011, is an advanced text and sentiment analytics company. The company has developed a platform which analyses huge amounts of unstructured text in real time, and will be monitoring the 2015 General Election.

Oxford Photovoltaics raises £8 million in Series B

9th March 2015

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Oxford Photovoltaics was spun out by Oxford University Innovation in 2010 based on technology developed by Professor Henry Snaith from Oxford's Department of Physics.

University of Oxford Isis Fund II reaches funding target of £2m, closes

24th February 2015

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Oxford University Innovation and Parkwalk Advisors announced today that the University of Oxford Isis Fund II has raised over £2 million, exceeding its funding target, and will close to new investors. The fund achieved its initial target in less than four weeks and will close at almost twice that level.

Isis Software Incubator start-up Onfido raises $4.5m Series A

18th February 2015

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Onfido, a start-up company from the Oxford University Innovation Software Incubator has secured a further $4.5m though Series A funding to help them expand internationally.

Oxford University Innovation spinout Oxbotica to provide control systems for UK’s first driverless car

12th February 2015

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Oxbotica - spun out in late 2014 from the University of Oxford's Mobile Robotics Group - will provide control systems for 40 autonomous pods as part of a multi-million pound driverless car challenge.

Oxford University Innovation spin-out Oxehealth successfully trials baby-monitoring software

12th February 2015

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A new technology which has been trialed at Oxford's John Radcliffe Hospital will help improve the way babies are monitored.

Nightstar Ltd increases funding to £17 million

10th February 2015

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Nightstar, which was spun out in 2014 raising £12 million from Syncona, the venture arm of the Wellcome Trust, has received additional finance from its key investors to advance the company’s clinical choroideremia programme.