MaC Venture Capital has raised its inaugural seed fund thanks to limited partners including University of Michigan and Howard University.

E-commerce platform developer Olist added $23m to a SoftBank-backed round now topping $80m, while Waters Corporation-backed TetraScience closed its series B at $80m.

Amazon Smbhav Venture Fund will back Indian companies developing digitalisation technology for small and medium-sized businesses.

Prosus took part in a $63m round for logistics service provider Shipper while V1 Group-backed animation platform developer Laihua raised over $25m.

Longfor Group, Tencent and Meituan Dianping were among the investors to back the cleaning robot producer’s series B-plus round.

Asahi Kasei Ventures took part in a $70m round for food waste technology provider Hazel Technologies while Zoll Medical Corporation bought portfolio company Respicardia.

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

ECBF has supplied an extension to Aphea.Bio’s series B round, which already included Gemma Frisius Fund, Qbic, Vives and V-Bio Ventures.

Esri helped Allied Minds' satellite constellation operator take its total funding to $155m in a round that will fund the launch of more satellites.

ECBF has provided an extension for the pesticide and crop stimulant provider's Group De Ceuster-bacekd series B round, which now stands at $21.8m.