Every day, Global University Venturing rounds up the smaller investments from across the university innovation ecosystem in its deal net.
Future Standard, a Japan-based spinout of Tokyo University of Science, obtained ¥165m ($1.5m) of capital from the university’s Innovation Capital unit yesterday to drive progress on an artificial intelligence-equipped video analytics tool designed to promote industry-academia collaboration through insights and the provision of additional industry internships. The capital will help augment its consulting team to support the development and launch of the technology, which has been dubbed Scorer. It marks the first investment for Tokyo University of Science Innovation Capital,…