Global University Venturing

PreSeed Ventures-backed Pento has secured $15.6m in a series A round led by General Catalyst, bringing its total financing to $19.1m.

Respective endowments for University of Macau and Macau University of Science and Technology have contributed to a series A round.

The institution has committed $40m to Chengwei Ventures Evergreen Fund LP and $55m to two Eclipse Ventures funds.

CU Boulder spinout ColdQuanta has now raised $74m in funding altogether, having previously obtained $32m in a series A round six months ago.

ANU Connect Ventures has participated in a series B round for Liquid Instruments, which builds on research at Australian National University.

Jeff Welch has joined Duke as director of new ventures, while executive director Robin Rasor has been promoted to associate VP.

Augusta University has hired Northwestern’s Michael Moore as director of technology transfer.

Lund spinout Glō has agreed to an acquisition by Nanosys, which will now look to strengthen its market share in TV sets and enter more markets such as AR.

IP Group is exiting the diffractive waveguide producer in a cash-and-share purchase by Snap.

The Lund research-based oat milk brand has floated in a $1.43bn IPO on the Nasdaq Global Select Market after pricing shares at $17.

Undisclosed investors have supplied series D funding for the Tsinghua-backed bookkeeping and taxation software developer.