Every day, Global University Venturing rounds up the smaller investments from across the university innovation ecosystem in its deal net.
Ambi Robotics, a US-based picking robots technology developer spun out of University of California, Berkeley, completed a $26m series A round yesterday led by Tiger Global Management, with participation from the House Fund, backed by the university, as well as Bow Capital and Vertex Ventures US. Ambi Robotics emerged from stealth in March 2021 with $6.1m in seed financing co-led by the House Fund, Bow Capital and Vertex Ventures.
Zhipu.AI, a China-based artificial intelligence-powered knowledge graph platform developer, has closed a RMB100m ($15.5m) series A round backed by Tsinghua Holdings Capital, the private equity arm of Tsinghua University’s asset management subsidiary Tsinghua Holdings, according to China Money Network. The round was also backed by optics technology producer Luster LightTech as well as Shenzhen Fortune Caizhi Venture, Jiangmen Ventures and Turing Ventures. The report also identified TH Capital as a participant, but it is unclear whether that was the…
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).
