Every day, Global University Venturing rounds up the smaller investments from across the university innovation ecosystem in its deal net.
BitBiome, a Japan-based Waseda University spinout that is developing a microbiological single-cell genome analysis technology, has raised ¥700m ($6.6m), bringing its overall funding to $9.9m. University of Tokyo-affiliated Edge Capital Partners (Utec) and public-private partnership Innovation Network Corporation of Japan-sponsored Universal Materials Incubator invested, as did Idaten Ventures and Vital Ventures. Utec had already backed the company’s $3.2m round in January 2019.
Raptor Maps, a US-based solar electricity data analytics spinout of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), has closed…
