Utah spinout Techcyte has received $21m in funding, three and a half years after its series A round.

University of Cambridge has taken part in a $13.9m series A round for its spinout Echion Technologies.

Tencent and Unilever Ventures returned for a round valuing the accounting and invoicing platform developer at nearly $600m.

Hannover Medical School spinout Cardior has welcomed both new and existing backers, such as Bristol Myers Squibb, for a series B round led by Inkef Capital.

Exploiting research at University of Pittsburgh and UPMC, Novasenta has been established with $20m in seed financing.

The CAA Ventures-backed apartment network secured a valuation of over $600m through an ongoing series C round it announced this week.

Baidu's smart voice technology spinoff received an undisclosed amount of series B funding, hiking its valuation 75% in nine months.

The series C1 round pushed the Sanofi and Alexandria Real Estate Equities-backed oral therapeutics developer’s total funding to about $200m.

SBI Group, E.Sun, Systex and AppWorks all contributed to the crypto trading technology provider's pre-series A round.

Immunotherapy developer Elixiron has closed its series A1 round with capital from investors including Hong Tai Electric Industrial.