
The Global University Venturing deal net rounds up all the latest smaller deals and tracks emerging companies accessing university funds.
Based on research conducted at Caltech and Nasa, Virtualitics has now raised more than $11m in funding for its VR data visualisation and analytics platform.
Sensor technology developer Chirp will become a wholly-owned TDK subsidiary, providing exits to University of California and UC Berkeley’s Skydeck accelerator.
SK Telecom has committed $65m to ID Quantique, a quantum cryptography technology spinout from University of Geneva, adding to $2m it had previously provided.
Cambridge Innovation Capital has led a $12m series A close for GeoSpock, which had already secured an initial $5.4m tranche in 2015.
The Birmingham spinout is entering the final stages of testing for its semiconductor technology.
Orange Digital Ventures, General Electric and Deutsche Telekom all took part as the Ben-Gurion University spinout added to its $7m series A.
The internet company will pour $1.2m into the Technical University of Munich Foundation and another $310,000 into TUM's AppliedAI initiative.