The Global University Venturing deal net rounds up the smaller investments from across the university innovation ecosystem.

Moa Technology, a UK-based crop protection products developer spun out of University of Oxford, has raised £35m ($44m) in a series B round co-led by university venture fund Oxford Science Enterprises (OSE), Parkwalk Advisors and Lansdowne Partners, AgFunder News revealed yesterday. The round included commercialisation firm IP Group, Bits x Bites and Business Growth Fund. Mazen Animal Health, a US-based developer of oral vaccination technology for pigs and poultry, has raised $11m in series A funding from investors including Cal Poly Ventures, a vehicle for California Polytechnic State University, AgFunder News reported yesterday. Veterinary technology provider Addison Laboratories and food and animal product manufacturer Kent Corporation also took part in the round, which was led by Fall Line Capital. AgFunder, 1330 Investments, SLO Seeds Ventures, Next Level Ventures, Ag Startup Engine, Ag Ventures Alliance, ISAV and Summit Ag filled out the list of participants. Planet FWD, a US-based company that assesses and helps reduce the carbon footprint of consumer product businesses, raised $10m in a series A round yesterday co-led by Congruent Ventures, the venture capital firm backed by University of California, and Acre Venture Partners. Emerson Collective, BBG Ventures, Precursor, Concrete Rose, January Ventures, Elemental Excelerator, Cleo Capital and ReThink Food also invested. Revoltech, a Germany-based vegan leather substitute developer spun out of TU Darmstadt, has received a seven-figure seed round, according to Startbase. The money came from B.Value, BMH Beteiligungs-Managementgesellschaft Hessen and HEAG Holding. Revoltech produces a leather substitute using crop waste from hemp plants. It was founded last year and claims its approach produces less than 1% of carbon emissions compared to animal leather. Enecoat Technologies, a Japan-based developer of perovskite solar cells spun out of Kyoto University, has raised an undisclosed sum from the JGC MIRAI Innovation Fund, a jointly managed corporate venture capital fund for engineering company JGC Holdings and its subsidiary JGC Japan. – Additional reporting by Robert Lavine

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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).