Every day, Global University Venturing rounds up the smaller investments from across the university innovation ecosystem in its deal net.
Phospholutions, a US-based sustainable fertiliser developer spun out of Penn State University, raised up to $1.5m on Thursday in a seed round co-led by university-affiliated venture capital fund 1855 Capital and Maumee Ventures, the strategic investment unit of agribusiness The Andersons. The spinout is working on technology to reduce the environmental impact of phosphorus fertiliser. The funding will support the launch of a soil-enhancement product known as RhizoSorb.
Raptor Maps, a US-based solar farm management technology producer based on…
Thierry Heles
Thierry Heles is editor-at-large of Global University Venturing and Global Corporate Venturing, and host of the Beyond the Breakthrough podcast.
