Meat-free food ingredient supplier Motif FoodWorks has added $27.5m to a $90m round featuring Louis Dreyfus and Fonterra earlier this year.

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

Limited partners in the $97.2m fund include corporates Ardex, Autodesk, Cemex, Ferguson, FMI, Glodon, Haskell, Hilti, Obayashi, Sidewalk Labs and United Rentals.

Asahi Kasei Ventures was among the investors in a round that boosted the food-freshness technology developer's funding to nearly $18m altogether.

Kanematsu-backed microsatellite launch company Vector has halted operations indefinitely after a major change in financing, less than a year after lining up $70m in series B capital.

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

Each Friday the Global Corporate Venturing Deal Net rounds up the week’s smaller deals and tracks the emerging companies accessing corporate funds.

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

Allied Minds has returned again for a series B round that took the firm's geospatial data analytics technology subsidiary's total funding to about $96m.

Seed development technology provider Inari increased its funding to $144m altogether, with Campbell Soup's Acre Venture Partners returning to reinvest.