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

Insignum AgTech, a US-based developer of plants that turn purple during early-stage infection, has received $100,000 from Purdue Ag-Celerator, the investment fund of Purdue University’s commercialisation arm Purdue Foundry. Insignum AgTech’s technology enables farmers to protect their crops, as the plants turn purple before a disease could be identified through traditional means. Verility, a US-based animal health platform offering fertility analysis products, has also received $100,000 from Purdue Ag-Celerator. Verility’s products are aimed at livestock producers and breeders, helping them predict ovulation phases and assessing sperm quality at the point of care. Transfur, a US-based developer of software to provide insight into veterinary medical records, has completed a pre-seed round of undisclosed size featuring Warf Ventures, the venture fund of Wisconsin Area Alumni Research Foundation, the Business Journals reported yesterday. The money will allow Transfur to conclude beta testing and gear up for the launch of its inaugural product. Omecu, a UK-based genomic records analytics platform aimed at drug discovery and personalised medicine applications, was spun out of Edinburgh University on Wednesday. The spinout was set up by tech transfer subsidiary Edinburgh Innovations, which had supported the founders since 2019. It has secured an undisclosed amount of funding from the university’s Data-Driven Entrepreneurship Seed Fund and FastTrack Mentor initiatives, both supported by public body Scottish Funding Council.

Subscribe to go deeper

GCV subscribers get access to all our proprietary data and deep-dive articles, as well as the global directory of CVC investors.



Not sure if you have a subscription?
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).