Education

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

Stanford-backed student support platform UpSwing has added $2m from investors including Impact America Fund to take its total to approximately $5m.

Edtech provider Renaissance has bought UM's early years education assessment provider Early Learning Labs, vindicating twenty years of government-funded research.

More than six years after being launched by Open University to offer massive open online courses, FutureLearn has raised its first external funding from Seek Group.

Seek Group led a series E round that valued Coursera at more than $1bn, boosting the Stanford-founded online education provider’s total funding to more than $313m.

Bonsal will return to venture capital, ending a six-year spell as director of venture creation at Towson through which he was credited with the realignment of its incubator.

Penguin Innovations has spun out of Purdue’s College of Pharmacy with a virtual cleanroom training program for pharmacy students.

Evervault is pursuing seed funding for encryption software that protects compromised networks, while MyStudyPal has launched an academic timetabling app.