Consumer

Vorwerk Ventures and Blue Horizon Ventures have co-led a series A round for the ETH Zurich spinout selling plant-based meat products.

The cultured meat product developer has added a $10m tranche of funding to its series B round, five years after being spun out of Maastricht University.

UChicago has once again backed the corner store operator, and the round was co-led by Almanac Insights and Monogram Capital Partners.

Rogue has achieved a first close for its fourth fund, although it is as-yet unclear whether Oregon State University is again an investor.

Today's deal net contains news from PGDx, Notch Therapeutics, Quell Therapeutics, SpyBiotech, Vision Medicals, Future Meat Technologies, BusUp and Advanced Chemotherapy Technologies.

NC State is the first of a planned five academic partners to benefit from on-campus commercialisation experts and access to capital.

Cellular Agriculture was spun out of University of Bath in 2016 as the UK’s first startup in the cultured meat space, but its ambitions go far beyond a lab-grown burger.

The company has committed $100m to the Catalyst Fund for early-stage start-ups, which may be available to university startups.

Caltech and Pennsylvania back on-line teaching company Coursera, which just won the praise of Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates.