Environmental compliance software startup Encamp has amassed $1.1m from investors including IU’s Philanthropic Venture Fund.

UNL spinout Drone Amplified has devised a drone that conducts fire management stress tests on parklands by dropping small combustible balls filled with glycol on targeted pieces of land.

OSU-founded cybersecurity business DatAnchor has officially launched with an undisclosed sum from the multi-university-backed Ohio Innovation Fund, and Dundee Venture Capital.

Each Friday the Global Corporate Venturing Deal Net rounds up the week’s smaller deals and tracks the emerging companies accessing corporate funds.

Purdue’s Trask Innovation Fund has committed $50,000 each to short-term research projects into sodium-ion batteries and a handheld plant scanner, in addition to $21,000 for a data security project.

Novo Holdings has invested more than $22m of its $165m fund across four companies developing drugs meant to combat antimicrobial resistance.

Animal health product developer Bactana is advancing Cornell University research into probiotics that could lead to improved vitality for livestock including cattle, swine and poultry.

Each Friday the Global Corporate Venturing Deal Net rounds up the week’s smaller deals and tracks the emerging companies accessing corporate funds.

Machine tools supplier Trumpf has put funding behind Eyewear Tech to commercialise an eye tracking platform based on Idiap Research Institute and EPFL technology.

Magnitude Biosciences started operations in September 2018 to commercialise a Durham University ageing research technology centred on the C.elegans nematode worm.