Short-term accommodation provider Cohabs secured more than $70m in a round led by AG Real Estate, while Stampli, Impress and Tarana Wireless each raised $50m.

Alexandria Venture Investments has returned to take part in the seed technology developer’s series D round at a $1.2bn valuation, helping to take its total funding to $352m.

Human resources software provider Legion and edge cloud services provider Zenlayer each received $50m while Intel is exiting Sedona Systems in a $100m acquisition.

Atlantic Bridge has launched the University Bridge Fund II, with University College Cork joining existing partners Trinity College Dublin and University College Dublin.

Q&A with Erning Cao, investment director, Evonik Venture Capital

MIT spinout Ginkgo Bioworks will go public through a reverse merger with Soaring Eagle Acquisition Corp to list on the Nasdaq Capital Market.

The venture fund, focused on companies out of MIT, Harvard and Rochester, has collected more than $191m on its way to a $325m target.

Legend Holdings' Legend Star unit led a round for optical chip producer Turing Quantum sized above $15m while several Japanese companies also raised money.

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