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

Standard Energy, a South Korea-headquartered vanadium ion battery developer co-founded by researchers from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, has obtained $8.9m in series C funding from internet group SoftBank through its Softbank Ventures Asia subsidiary, DealStreetAsia reported today, citing a company statement. Standard Energy has now raised $22.5m altogether, according to TechCrunch.
Futurae, the Switzerland-based developer of a cybersecurity software platform covering user authentication and transaction confirmation, has secured €5m ($5.9m) from…

Thierry Heles

Thierry Heles is editor-at-large of Global University Venturing and Global Corporate Venturing, and host of the Beyond the Breakthrough podcast.