GCV Powerlist member Thomas Birr is set to leave his role managing Innogy’s innovation activities to perform similar duties at Eon as the energy utilities prepare to merge.

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

Tokenised financial transfer service Fnality International, which was formed by the financial services firms behind the Utility Settlement Coin project, secured $63.2m.

The open banking software provider will continue its European expansion plans with a $35m round that featured Tencent, taking its total funding to more than $47m.

The data centre operator received $63m in a round that included SBI Crypto Investment and Keppel Data Centres and will put the cash into geographical growth.

Off-gird solar system provider Azuri secured funding in a Marubeni-led round that was also backed by IP Group, and will use it to enter new markets.

IP Group has backed Azuri Technologies, which markets pay-as-you-go solar-powered appliances to households in sub-Saharan Africa.

Spun out of ETH Zurich, the logistics technology developer has secured $35.2m from DiaMedCare to roll out its upgraded supply chain-monitoring sensors.

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

Rocket Internet, Access Industries and Tengelmann-backed fashion e-commerce marketplace GFG could float in Germany next month.