The tea product supplier has become the fourth business backed by University of Maryland Momentum Fund.

Bristol quantum computer security spinout Kets Quantum Security has won investment from Kx Systems after joining the corporate-backed Teac communications accelerator last year.

ANU wildlife monitoring spinout Wildlife Drones previously turned to a Csiro-run accelerator to help get its drone-powered animal tracking system off the ground.

Uniseed has returned to back Csiro digital health spinout Cardihab after an earlier round which also raised $1.4m in 2017.

Baidu has provided Robot++ with pre-series A funding following an angel round backed by a Tsinghua incubator in April 2018.

Chalmers Ventures has again supplied smart lock supplier Parakey with funding after investing alongside IoT and wireless tech firm Qamcom in 2016.

Drawing on PSL research expertise, patient billing management platform Sancare anticipates strengthening its links with the university following investment from the PSL Innovation Fund.

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

Cambridge neural interface spinout Bios will use some of the seed capital to develop an interface between prosthetic objects and the human nervous system.

Chemicals firm JNC has injected $4.5m into Northwestern battery spinout SiNode Systems, which has rebranded to Nanograf Technologies as a result.