Global University Venturing

GUV October 2020 issue editorial by Thierry Heles, editor, Global University Venturing

Every day, Global University Venturing rounds up the smaller investments from across the university innovation ecosystem in its deal net.

University of Toronto's FPGA programming platform developer LegUp Computing has been acquired in a deal that allowed Intel Capital to exit.

The bioremediation technology startup is the first company to be launched through MIT spinout Ginkgo Bioworks' $350m Ferment Consortium.

University of Buffalo's Innovation Hub has joined forces with a state government initiative to invest $10m in early-stage technologies.

The remote education software provider has now raised $40.2m within the past month from investors including Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Founded out of Harvard University, Robust Intelligence has raised seed and series A capital to push its initial slate of AI security products.

Aalto's bone lengthening treatment spinout Synoste has been snapped up after raising funding from investors including Evonik and Mectalent.

Parkwalk made the revelations in a bullish quarterly update that cited the UK government's interest in invigorating deep tech research amid covid-19.

LMU-founded antibody reagent supplier ChromoTek has been picked up after raising funding from Bayern Kapital and HTGF in 2010.

The University of Oslo sensor software spinout has started trading on the Merkur Market, part of the Oslo Stock Exchange.