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

Aliro Technologies, a US-based quantum computing spinout of Harvard University, yesterday received $2.7m in a seed round backed by Samsung Next, a corporate venturing arm of consumer electronics group Samsung, Flybridge Capital Partners, Crosslink Capital and a range of undisclosed investors. The spinout is working on software to make quantum computing more accessible to developers, making it possible to write an application once and run it on any device without manually adjusting it to the specific computer. Aliro commercialises work…

Thierry Heles

Thierry Heles is editor-at-large of Global University Venturing and Global Corporate Venturing, and host of the Beyond the Breakthrough podcast.