Global University Venturing

This is our data snapshot based on last month’s investment activity. The charts and tables have been generated by our data platform GCV Analytics.

GCV Analytics defines the financial services sector as encompassing payment technologies and cryptocurrencies, personal finance and wealth management, insurance, alternative lending, crowdfunding, client and risk analytics, firms and funds, social investing and others.

Forescout Technologies has paid approximately $113m to acquire operational technology security provider and University of Twente spinout SecurityMatters.

Emesent spun out from Csiro earlier this year to market an underground drone that could help mining firms build an improved picture of their operations.

University of Auckland’s commercialisation arm is among the latest backers for drone technology developer Dotterel, which raised approximately $500,000 last year.

Penn spinout Cabaletta Bio’s first funding round includes university investment and it will use the cash to develop T-cell drugs for autoimmune diseases including pemphigus vulgaris.

Unnamed university endowments have put funding into Material Impact’s inaugural vehicle, which will incubate materials businesses including spinouts in industries such as energy, transportation and healthcare.

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In this short piece, we provide a comparison of our GCV Analytics data with Pitchbook’s data up until the end of the third quarter of 2018.

Tsinghua University has led a round for Trifo, with the funding to support the launch of the startup's smart home robot.

Ayar Labs has raised $24m to commercialise its technology that enables data transmission using light, based on research at MIT and CU Boulder.