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

Nottingham-founded Excellerate Biosciences has been bought by Oxford's spinout OMass Therapeutics, which unveiled a series A extension last week.

Cambridge University Ventures SEIS Fund will back businesses from the Cambridge ecosystem, including those founded by students and recent graduates.

The ProSiebenSat.1-backed digital publisher is now valued at $500m, having secured $40m in a round that took its total funding to $160m.

The deep tech-focused TTO invested $7.7m in its technology pipeline and more than doubled spinout generation year-on-year.

Returning investor RATP Capital Innovation and long-term insurer Allianz France both participated as the moped rental platform raised $25.5m.

Graphcore, which traces its origins back to University of Bristol, has added $150m to a round that already included Ahren Innovation Capital.

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

The AI platform developer has added $150m to a round that already included BMW, Robert Bosch, Dell, Microsoft and Samsung and is now valued just shy of $2bn.

Helmut Schönenberger, managing director of TU Munich’s tech transfer office, has been appointed vice-president entrepreneurship at the university.