Cleantech

Cambridge Innovation Capital has doubled down on its commitment to Origami, having already taken part in all previous rounds.

Every day, Global University Venturing rounds up the smaller investments from across the university innovation ecosystem in its deal net.

Atlantic Bridge has launched the University Bridge Fund II, with University College Cork joining existing partners Trinity College Dublin and University College Dublin.

The venture fund, focused on companies out of MIT, Harvard and Rochester, has collected more than $191m on its way to a $325m target.

American Electric Power, Chevron and Equinor all participated in a round that increased the Stanford company’s total funding to $228m.

CU Boulder’s solid-state battery provider pulled in funding through a series B round co-led by potential customers BMW and Ford.

Four of the incubator’s portfolio companies will pitch to investors at the GCV Digital Forum 3.0 following the success of similar competitions at our previous events.

Goldwind, Legal & General and Equinor have all taken part in a series D that achieved a $41m first close and boosted the Oxford spinout’s total equity and debt to more than $118m.

VW will invest $100m in QuantumScape and form a joint venture with the Stanford spinout to develop batteries for long-range electric vehicles.

NuMat Technologies, a spin-out from Northwestern University, won a $135,000 prize at the University of Texas.