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 editor-at-large of Global University Venturing and Global Corporate Venturing, and host of the Beyond the Breakthrough podcast.