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

The ride hailing service's SoftBank Vision Fund-backed driverless vehicle technology vehicle has received $300m as it lines up $1.5bn for its freight services unit.

Lenovo and the state-owned Guangzhou City Construction Investment Group took part in a $77.5m round for the cognitive AI software developer.

Sumitomo vehicle In Venture has invested in the quantum computing software startup through a $10.5m round as it looks to expand its engineering team.

MassMutual Ventures co-led the knowledge expertise service's latest round, which included Alibaba Entrepreneurs Fund and brought its overall funding to $30m.

SoftBank, Alibaba, Qualcomm, Suning and Dalian Wanda-backed image recognition software provider SenseTime has reportedly secured an undisclosed amount of pre-IPO funding.

The Samsung Ventures-backed cloud management software provider has raised series B funding in a round that roughly doubled its valuation to over $1bn.

Corporate training provider Yunxuetang has secured over $100m in a series E1 round in which Tencent put up the entire amount.

Rebel Launcher will enable restaurant and food startups to grow their businesses across India.

New Hope Group was among the participants in a series B round taking the total raised by the smart robotics technology provider to $130m in 2020.