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

SuperDraft has received $30m from Caesars Entertainment, which will add the company's daily fantasy game to its stable of online games.

PreSeed Ventures-backed Vivino runs a wine recommendation platform and has raised $155m in a series D round after adding 21 million users in three years.

Pea-based snack chip brand PeaTos has pulled in $12.5m through a round led by packaged goods manufacturer Post Holdings.

Sachin Bhanot has left B Capital after two years to lead Prosus Ventures' investment efforts in Southeast Asia.

Each Friday the Global Corporate Venturing Deal Net rounds up the week’s smaller deals and tracks the emerging companies accessing corporate funds.

SEB Alliance was among the participants in a round that will help the recipe publisher develop children's cooking kits along with a packaged goods offering.

An undisclosed US university endowment has helped the consumer-focused venture firm hit a $118m final close for its second fund, surpassing its $100m target in the process.

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

The Müller Medien-backed beauty services marketplace has collected $70m in a series C round that boosted its overall funding to more than $116m.