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

Gnista.io, an Austria-based data collection and analytics platform for industrial energy management spun out of TU Vienna, has raised an undisclosed amount in pre-seed funding from IST Cube, the venture fund of Institute of Science and Technology Austria, and Katharo Ventures. The company concurrently secured grant funding from state-owned promotional bank Austria Wirtschaftsservice.

E-liza Dolls, a US-based developer of dolls that teaches girls how to code and build hardware, has raised an undisclosed amount from investors including Peter Abbeel, a…

Thierry Heles

Thierry Heles is the former editor-at-large of Global University Venturing and Global Corporate Venturing, and was the producer and host of the Beyond the Breakthrough podcast until December 2024.