Julie Kainz has departed from Salesforce Ventures and joined venture capital firm Dawn Capital as a vice-president.

Kai Engelhardt, a GCV Powerlist award winner, said he had decided to return to ventures after two years as head of digitalisation at Mahle.

Cancer and graft-versus-host disease therapy developer MaaT has raised a second tranche to hike the Biocodex-backed round to $30.4m.

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

The $59.4m round will support the development of four clinical-stage candidates for neurological disorders Noema licensed from shareholder Roche.

Nvidia has purchased OptiGot, a developer of semiconductor laser diodes that enable applications such as consumer and lidar sensors.

The Croda International-backed biopharmaceutical developer has cloesd a $13.2m round to boost its overall funding to about $25m.

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

Existing backers including Draper Esprit and Sussex Place Ventures have reinvested to bring Endomag’s overall funding to above $43m.

Based on Ghent University, KU Leuven and VIB research, Aphea.Bio is now making provisions to launch its initial products.