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Animated Dynamics, a US-based cancer treatment guidance technology spinout of Purdue University, has received $5.5m from undisclosed investors, according to Indianapolis Business Journal. The company was formed from research led by David Nolte, the Edward M. Purcell Distinguished professor of physics and autonomy at Purdue University and raised $1.7m in a 2016 series A round led by Caravel Ventures that featured Purdue’s Research Foundation, commercial real estate manager Vestian and Elevate Ventures, before an early 2018 regulatory filing suggested it raised $1.3m in equity funding from unnamed investors. It added $250,000 in late 2018 from Indiana Seed Fund III, a vehicle backed by University of Notre Dame, Indiana University and pharmaceutical firm Eli Lilly, before picking up the same amount in May 2019 from Foundry Investment Fund, the Purdue University-focused investment partnership of Purdue Research Foundation and medical device supplier Cook Medical. Japan-based branding, graphic and web design services provider FlowPlateaux has raised ¥400m ($3.8m) in pre-series A funding from Tokyo University of Science Innovation Capital. The company was spun off by art and design collective Rhizomatiks and will channel the capital into expanding its management team and launching new services. Yasai, a Switzerland-based vertical farming service provider spun out of ETH Zurich, has obtained CHF500,000 ($540,000) from agricultural cooperative body Fenaco as part of a strategic partnership. The pact will involve piloting an industrial-scale vertical farming scheme in Zurich to cultivate about 20 tons of biomass per year in order to evaluate the technology’s efficacy against conventional agriculture alternatives.

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