Global University Venturing

Paris Saclay Seed Fund backed a series A round which will help the biotechnology company expand sales and launch a new product.

Plekhanov Russian University of Economics and Bitfury will pilot the program with Russian government funding in the latest of a series of blockchain-related projects announced by higher education institutions.

Provided by Matrix Partner China and Ceyuan Ventures, the series A capital will help Renmin natural language processing spinout Elens mature its product development and R&D capabilities.

Biotherapeutics developer Kanova has secured capital from investors including Tsinghua University-managed Lotus Lake Ventures.

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OUI's Gregg Bayes-Brown talks to Evotec's Thomas Hanke about what Lab282 has achieved in its first two years and what is next for the partnership.

Two large and important deals above the $1bn mark in the e-commerce and e-retail space in East Asia appeared in the news last week. Both deals involved telecoms group SoftBank as a corporate backer.

Wind turbine producer Goldwind returned and 36Kr Fund also invested as Tsinghua's rocket technology developer LandSpace secured $43.2m in a series B-plus round.

IBM Blockchain Accelerator will focus on later-stage startups, while Columbia Blockchain Launch Accelerator has been established for pre-seed companies.

JHU-backed fitness platform operator BurnAlong obtained the cash from investors including Brown Advisory to take its total to $4.7m.

NovaUCD, Vodafone Ireland and Ericsson will start an Ireland-wide accelerator for emerging 5G-related technologies.