Every day, Global University Venturing rounds up the smaller investments from across the university innovation ecosystem in its deal net.
Acerta Analytics, a Canada-based assembly and vehicle data software spinout of University of Waterloo, has closed a $7m series A round led by Omers Ventures, the investment arm of pension fund manager Omers, and also included software producer Microsoft’s corporate venture capital division M12, StandUp Ventures, Radical Ventures, EDC and Techstars. Acerta’s artificial intelligence-driven platform enables automotive engineers to extract meaningful insights from the data generated by connected cars. M12 previously injected $2m in late 2018, adding to earlier financing…