Information Technology

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

Stanford-StartX Fund-backed Onfleet has now raised $20m to date after securing series A funding to grow its last-mile delivery business.

OSI joined investors including Aioi Nissay Dowa Insurance to bring the University of Oxford enterprise machine learning spinout's overall funding to $24.4m.

Castor Ventures Fund took part in a round that will be used to strengthen Ayar's optical interconnector technology, which is based on MIT research.

CU Boulder-founded quantum technology developer ColdQuanta has attracted series A funding to follow a $16.8m seed round closed two years ago.

The MIT Media Lab-focused deep tech venture firm is back with its second fund having secured $24.6m of a targeted $80m from unnamed investors.

Academic research towards quantum computing and other quantum technologies is beginning to pay dividends, but continued progress will rely on strong cooperation between academic, industry and government partners.

Steady is the assessment that comes to mind, rather than remarkable, when probing the year-on-year direction of corporate venture capital investment in university spinouts.

Isis Innovation's Rakesh Roshan investigates the looming age of quantum computing.