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Axel Johnson investment fund Novax co-led a $15.3m round for the vegan protein and dairy substitute developer with Capricorn Partners Sustainable Chemistry Fund.

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.

Special report: Agtech

The third annual Global Corporate Venturing Israel conference took place in Tel Aviv on February 11 in partnership with local corporate innovation advisory firm Axis Innovation.

Sector analysis: Industrial

Wipro Ventures exited email security software developer Emailage, when it was acquired by LexisNexis Risk Solutions. The sizeable deal is part of the wider cybersecurity space which has been popular over recent years.

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