Every day, Global University Venturing rounds up the smaller investments from across the university innovation ecosystem in its deal net.
AgroSpheres, a US-based crop protection release system developer leveraging University of Virginia technology, raised $4m on Wednesday in a series A round led by VC firm Ospraie Ag Science and backed by Cavallo Ventures, a corporate venturing arm of agriproducts supplier Wilbur-Ellis. Founded in 2016, AgroSpheres has created a naturally-fermented crop protection container called Minicell that guards active ingredients against enzymes, heat and other performance-impairing factors, dispersing its contents gradually to maximise impact. AgroSpheres previously raised $750,000 in a mid-2017…
