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

McCain has branched out to vertical farming, investing an additional $24m in the leafy green food producer.

Funding from investors including Providence Health will allow the musculoskeletal treatment provider to expand its offering and healthcare network.

Cambridge Enterprise helped fill out a series A round for the battery technology developer that was led by IQ Capital.

Great Wall Motor's automotive battery technology spinoff has raised $541m in a round co-led by Bank of China Group Investment and CMG-SDIC Fund Management.

The GPU technology developer has completed a pre-series A round in the 10-digit yuan range that was backed by investors including ByteDance, H&T Intelligent Control and Pony.ai.

The Jinlong Group-backed biologic drug developer’s latest round pushed its overall funding from the past 12 months to approximately $387m.

The Baidu, Geely and SIG-backed in-car technology developer hiked its valuation to $2bn in a series A-plus round led by China Venture Capital Fund.

Microsoft unit M12 backed the healthcare data software provider in a round that valued the latter at $1.3bn, pushing its overall funding past $225m.

The construction materials marketplace operator was valued at $1bn in a round featuring Sistema Asia Fund.