Daily deal net: January 16, 2020

Mecuris, a Germany-based orthopaedic technology spinout of Ludwig Maximillian University of Munich’s research hospital, has closed a €3.6m ($4m) round involving public-private partnership High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF). Bavarian state-owned investment firm Bayern Kapital backed the round, as did hospital operator Sana Kliniken, investment firm Mulcan and venture firm Vesalius Biocapital. The spinout provides an online-based software platform enabling clinicians to order custom-made prosthetic and orthotic aids for patients made using 3D printing technology. Bayern Kapital and HTGF invested a “high six-figure” seed sum in 2016, before returning with both Vesalius and Mulcan for Mercuris’s $4.1m series A round this time last year, according to EU-Startups.
Calltic, a Belgium-based telecommunications fraud prevention system developer, has completed a €1.5m ($1.7m) series A round led by multi-institution-backed seed fund Qbic II, EU-Startups reported today. The round featured nanoelectronics research institute Imec’s iStart accelerator in addition to evergreen investment firm Akiles and private investor Luc Kindt. The cash will be put into Calltic’s first product launch later this year, and the company already has contracts for fraud detection on mobile networks in Africa.
Simba Chain, US-based enterprise blockchain deployment platform spun out of University of Notre Dame, has completed a $1.5m seed round backed by the university’s Pit Road Fund, Elevate Ventures, First Source Capital and unnamed angel investors. The round closed in December 2019 but was only announced this week, and is set to fund recruitment in sales and technology development, as Simba Chain prepares for market release on the back of initial contracts with US government agencies including the US Air Force. Simba Chain’s scientific co-founders are Ian Taylor and Jarek Nabrzyski, both professors in Notre Dame’s Department of Computer Science and Engineering.