Stratasys spinoff Evolve Additive Solutions secured $30m from 3D Ventures while CollegeDekho - spun off by GirnarSoft - raised $26.5m.

Keio’s synthetic silk producer increased its valuation to over $1.2bn in a round led by Carlyle Japan Partners.

Harvard spinout Emulate will use the cash to further develop its organ-on-a-chip technology, having now raised nearly $225m in total.

Parkwalk Advisors and Cambridge Innovation Capital have backed the pet antibody therapeutics developer, a spinout of Wellcome Sanger Institute.

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign’s cost management platform developer has increased its valuation to $280m in its most recent round.

Networking and cybersecurity technology provider Aviatrix was valued at $2bn through a series E round backed by existing investor Liberty Global Ventures.

The online lender, which is backed by Telefónica’s Wayra unit, has completed a $75m close, tripling its valuation to the nine-digit dollar range.

Existing backer Novo has helped the teeth straightening technology producer close a series D round hiking its overall funding to over $170m.

Dell, Hewlett Packard, Relx and Alphabet helped boost the database technology provider’s total funding to $264m.

SR One Capital Management has led the RNA targeting drug developer’s latest round, participating alongside investors including Lilly Asia Ventures.