Every day, Global University Venturing rounds up the smaller investments from across the university innovation ecosystem in its deal net.
Rna Diagnostics, a Canada-based cancer diagnostic technology developer spun out of Laurentian University, has received $8m in a series A round featuring BDC Capital and iGan Partners. The latter had led a $5m round, also billed as a series A, in November 2018 when it was joined by unnamed new and existing backers. Assorted angel investors supplied $800,000 in funding in September 2015, following a $925,000 angel round in 2012 featuring members of angel syndicates York Angels, Golden Triangle Angel Network, Georgian Angel Network and Niagara Angel Network.
Loft Labs, a US-based software development tools provider, raised $4.6m in a seed round backed by Berkeley SkyDeck Fund, a vehicle for University of California (UC), Berkeley’s accelerator SkyDeck, yesterday. The round was led by Fusion Fund, with further participation from RTP Seed, Emergent Ventures and angel investor Abby Kearns, who recently joined the company’s advisory board.
PATS, a Netherlands-based…
Thierry Heles
Thierry Heles is the editor of Global University Venturing, host of the Beyond the Breakthrough interview podcast and responsible for the monthly GUV Gazette (sign up here for free).
