Every day, Global University Venturing rounds up the smaller investments from across the university innovation ecosystem in its deal net.
PlasmaBound, an Ireland-based surface treatment technology developer spun out of University College Dublin, closed a €1.1m ($1.24m) funding round today led by the University Bridge Fund, managed by Atlantic Bridge, with participation from Enterprise Ireland and several private investors. PlasmBound’s controlled polymer ablation technology enables the automated structural adhesive joining of carbon and glass fibre-reinforced composites for applications in the automotive, aerospace and wind turbine industries. It was founded in 2017 out of the College of Engineering and Architecture.
Replica Analytics, a Canada-based data science company, has secured an undisclosed amount of seed capital from Facit, the commercialisation firm aligned with Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, through its Prospects Oncology Fund. Replica Analytics is working on modelling software to generate synthetic data using real clinical datasets. Synthetic data is used in areas such as artificial intelligence-powered research in healthcare.
Atium, a Sweden-based developer of technology to remove…
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).
