Every day, Global University Venturing rounds up the smaller investments from across the university innovation ecosystem in its deal net.

Ambi Robotics, a US-based picking robots technology developer spun out of University of California, Berkeley, has emerged from stealth with $6.1m in seed financing co-led by the university-backed House Fund, Bow Capital and Vertex Ventures. Ambi Robotics was originally known as Ambidextrous and is based on work by co-founder Ken Goldberg, a professor in the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences.
PBD Biotech, a UK-based developer of a diagnostic test for bovine tuberculosis spun out of University of…

Thierry Heles

Thierry Heles is the former editor-at-large of Global University Venturing and Global Corporate Venturing, and was the producer and host of the Beyond the Breakthrough podcast until December 2024.