Global University Venturing

CU Boulder battery tech spinout Solid Power and Ford will collaborate on delivering a solid-state cell for electric vehicles using the spinout's production facility.

A member of NYU's Future Labs incubator network, virtual receptionist developer Bowtie.ai has been acquired by wellness services software developer Mindbody.

NextStep Robotics, which last raised funding in February 2018, is commercialising research from two University of Maryland campuses and the Baltimore Veterans Affairs Motor Performance Laboratory.

Osage University Partners, Gradient Ventures and Rakuten Ventures featured in machine learning software developer Algorithmia's latest round, which brought its total to $37.9m.

Tesi and KPN Ventures joined Inventure and Vito Ventures for Tampere University-founded IoT connectivity spinout Wirepas's latest round, which brought its total to $24.6m.

Keren Primor Cohen has been promoted to CEO of Tel Aviv University’s TTO as the successor to Shlomo Nimrodi, who has departed after seven years in the post.

Satt Aquitaine-founded TreeFrog has now raised $11.1m in equity and grant funding, having secured follow-on contributions from investors including the tech transfer office.

The university will team up with City of Long Beach’s municipal government and Sunstone Management for an accelerator.

Warf-backed 4490 Ventures has returned to supply funding to weather analytics service Understory in support of the latter’s international expansion and recruitment strategy.

The immunotherapy developer, which is exploits Yale University research and counts Eli Lilly, Pfizer, Taiho and Ping An as investors, floated in the middle of its range after raising $160m in venture funding.

The series A, led by corporate venturing unit GV, may not have been last week’s largest deal, but Verve’s tie-up with fellow Harvard spinout Beam Therapeutics tells an intriguing story.