The Assurant and Samsung-backed consumer device rental service has secured $29m in a series B extension provided by unnamed backers.

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

MicroPort's implantable implantable defibrillator and pacemaker spinoff has secured funding in a series C round co-led by its parent company.

Carbon-neutral blockchain technology developer Core Scientific raised $54m from Celsius while autoimmune disease therapy developer Topas Therapeutics took a BIVF-backed round past $47m.

The European Investment Fund has partnered two banks to launch an investment platform that aims to support the creation of 100 spinouts.

TU Munich spinout Isar Aerospace has added $75m to its series B round, bringing the round’s total to nearly $166m and its overall financing to more than $183m.

Topas Therapeutics has almost doubled its series B round to $48m thanks to an extension backed by all of its shareholders.

Imec.xpand has returned to back a series B round for sleep diagnostic developer Onera Health, spun out of Imec.

IP Group is among the investors backing the DDR cancer therapeutics developer’s latest round, which took its total funding to $320m.

M Ventures, Novartis Venture Fund and Pfizer Ventures are among the investors backing the DDR cancer therapeutics developer’s latest round, which took its total funding to $320m.