Tekfen Ventures, Cisco Investments and Qualcomm Ventures are set to exit the crop monitoring technology developer later this year in a deal with Valmont Industries.

SoftBank Vision Fund led a $75m round valuing OKR platform developer WorkBoard at $800m while therapist network provider Headway hit a $750m valuation.

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

Solidia Technologies, Kelun Biotech and Doer Biologics all raised more than $70m while Sony added cash to a round valuing Discord at $7bn.

Oxford University Innovation has revealed it launched 37 new companies between April 2020 and March 2021, its best run yet.

Q&A with Jennifer Diedrichs, investment manager, EnBW New Ventures

The digital architecture and construction platform developer has closed a $190m round co-led by existing corporate investor JE Dunn.

Eddyfi/NDT has agreed to purchase UCL spinout Senceive for an undisclosed amount.

Shapeways is another company from the 3D printing space, which has gone public through a reverse merger, after its peer Desktop Metal in 2020. The additive manufacturing space has seen a somewhat modest interest from corporate investors in the past decade.

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