Johns Hopkins spinout Blade Therapeutics has agreed to a reverse merger that will net it $24.3m in Pipe financing from backers including Osage University Partners.

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

Novartis eyecare subsidiary Alcon has agreed to acquire the Institut Mérieux, Ascension Health and MemorialCare Health System-backed MIGS technology provider.

The Ohio State spinout has gone public in an upsized IPO sized at approximately $182m.

Vertex Pharmaceuticals and Illumina Ventures both contributed to a round that increased the genetic therapeutics developer's total funding to over $300m.

Takeda Ventures was among the participants in a $46.5m round closed nearly a year after its parent company launched a partnership with the Institut Curie spinout.

The health monitoring software provider, which counts iFlytek as an investor, has received $78.2m in a round led by Huaxing Growth Capital.

Capgemini, Salesforce and ServiceNow helped visual commerce platform developer Threekit net $35m while Tencent led a $26m round for UGC management software provider Mod.io.

Multicorporate-backed online pharmacy operator API Holdings has filed for an offering that will not involve its shareholders selling their stakes.

DivcoWest, JLL and Allegion combined in a $60m round for workplace data platform developer VergeSense while Sanofi committed up to $60m to ocular therapeutics developer Gyroscope.