The classified listings group is putting up about $46m for Info Edge Venture Fund and expects to mobilise external backers to hit a $100m target.

The corporate is pumping $100m into the newly formed Opportunity Growth Fund, to invest in founders and entrepreneurs of colour.

Pfizer Breakthrough Growth Initiative is set to allocate as much as $500m to publicly listed clinical-stage life science technology developers.

MassMutual Ventures now has $450m under management across five funds, with its third main fund to invest in North America, Europe and Israel.

Kobayashi and Daikin Industries are among the limited partners for the investment firm’s latest fund, which has a target of about $74m for its final close.

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

Astamuse and Dream Incubator have combined with University of Tokyo for a carveout fund equipped with just over $26m in capital.

UTokyoIPC-aligned venture unit AOI I secured SMBC and Mitsubishi UFJ for an initial close intended to aid the generation of quality spinouts.

University of Michigan has become the latest academic institution to strike a $130m fund partnership with Deerfield Management.

Fresh.Fund has joined forces with University of Haifa to launch a student-run university seed fund, following up its prior collaboration with Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.