Every day, Global University Venturing rounds up investments from across the university innovation ecosystem in its deal net.
HC Bioscience, a US-based tRNA-based drug discovery and development spinout of University of Iowa, has completed a $24m series A round co-led by Arch Venture Partners, 8VC and Takeda Ventures, a strategic investment unit of pharmaceutical firm Takeda.
Verdox, a US-based carbon capture technology developer spun out of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has picked up $20m in funding from aluminium and energy producer Hydro invested $20m. The companies had formed a collaboration agreement in early 2021.
QuantrolOx, a UK-based spinout of University of Oxford working on machine learning technology to control qubits, has attracted £1.4m ($1.9m) in seed funding co-led by Hoxton Ventures and Nielsen Ventures, the corporate venturing arm of market measurement firm Nielsen, according to TechCrunch. The round also included Voima Ventures, Remus Capital and angel investors Hermann Hauser and Laurent Caraffa.
Senodis Technologies, a Germany-based developer of a technology to automatically identify hot-formed automotive metal components, has…
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).