The Global University Venturing deal net rounds up all the latest smaller deals and tracks emerging companies accessing university funds.
Eko, a US-based cardiac monitoring technology developer backed by the Stanford-StartX Fund, raised $5m in a series A round on Wednesday led by Artis Ventures, with participation from Strategic Partners, Dreamlt Ventures, 1812 Ventures, and Founder.org. The company has developed a device that attaches to a stethoscope and tracks and logs a patient’s heartbeat. In 2015, private investors supplied $2m to the company after Hub Ventures had injected $20,000 in seed funding in 2013. Eko, which emerged out of…
