Cambridge Enterprise, the University of Cambridge's commercialisation office, and UK government-backed investment group Carbon Trust join Rhodia in the consortium backing Eight19.
France-based specialty chemicals company Rhodia has made its first corporate venturing deal by joining a consortium investing £4.5m ($7m) in Eight19, a UK-based maker of flexible solar panels formed by the two professors behind organic semiconductor company Plastic Logic.
Cambridge Enterprise, the University of Cambridge’s commercialisation office, and UK government-backed investment group Carbon Trust also joined the consortium backing Eight19.
The portfolio company was spun out from the Carbon Trust’s Cambridge University-TTP Advanced Photovoltaic Research Accelerator to tap into…
