Consumer

The Unilever and Lenovo-backed grocery delivery service has raised $28m but could reportedly be acquired at a valuation below $15m.

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

Google unit Gradient Ventures and Square have taken part in a $28m round for Oura, the developer of a wearable sleep tracker.

Axel Johnson investment fund Novax co-led a $15.3m round for Fraunhofer Institute's vegan protein and dairy substitute developer.

Cellular Agriculture was spun out of University of Bath in 2016 as the UK’s first startup in the cultured meat space, but its ambitions go far beyond a lab-grown burger.

Prepared by researchers from the Washington University, St Louis on behalf of The Yield Lab, sponsored by Rabo Strategic Ventures

Monthly analysis: February 2020

The United Nations-backed Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has previously estimated the world will need to remove an average of 10 gigatons –10 billion tons – of carbon dioxide (CO2) a year from the atmosphere by 2050.

Netherlands-based financial services firm Rabobank provided an additional €80m ($90m) of funding for its strategic investment subsidiary, Rabo Frontier Ventures a year ago in February 2019.

Owlcam has been acquired by Xirgo Technologies for an undisclosed sum two years after emerging from stealth, having raised $28m from investors including CSAA.

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