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 professor at University of California (UC), Berkeley and co-director of its Berkeley Robot Learning Lab. E-liza Dolls is based on research by UC Berkeley PhD researcher Eliza Kosoy. Investors in the round also included AIX Ventures, of which Abbeel is a founding investment partner, as well as angel investors Chris Manning, Richard Socher and Anthony Goldbloom.
Redbelly Network, an Australia-based commercial blockchain technology developer, has been spun out of University of Sydney and CSIRO, according to StartupDaily. The spinout claims its blockchain is the world’s fastest while being safer and more corruption-proof than similar offerings.
