Every day, Global University Venturing rounds up the smaller investments from across the university innovation ecosystem in its deal net.
Hazy, a UK-based synthetic data creation platform spun out of University College London, has collected $3.5m in a follow-on seed round led by venture firm Notion. Mutual financial services institution Nationwide and M12, the corporate venturing vehicle for computer software publisher Microsoft, both backed the round alongside retail and wholesale holding group Pentland, investment group Albion and undisclosed additional investors. The funding will help grow Hazy’s headcount, operations and partnerships as it builds synthetic data applications for regulated industries including…