Every day, Global University Venturing rounds up the smaller investments from across the university innovation ecosystem in its deal net.
Pickle, a US-based spinout of Massachusetts Institute of Technology developing a logistics robot, has secured $5.6m in seed funding led by Hyperplane, according to TechCrunch. The round also attracted Third Kind Venture Capital, Box Group and Version One Ventures and unnamed others.
Exotanium, a US-based cloud optimisation software developer spun out of Cornell University, has closed a $5m seed round co-led by Walden International and Nepenthe Capital. The round will allow Exotanium to scale its business, recruit more staff,…