Hero MotoCorp invested about $12m in a $35.1m round that took its stake in the smart electric scooter maker to nearly 38%.

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

Newly minted strategic partner FAW Group was among the participants as the autonomous driving system developer pushed its valuation to $5.3bn.

Stanford-StartX Fund-backed Onfleet has now raised $20m to date after securing series A funding to grow its last-mile delivery business.

OSI joined investors including Aioi Nissay Dowa Insurance to bring the University of Oxford enterprise machine learning spinout's overall funding to $24.4m.

CIC and Parkwalk have returned to back patient-focused genomic analysis developer Congenica, bringing its funding total to $85m.

Crown Bioscience spinoff Apollomics has closed a round led by Ping An Capital that will support clinical testing of its immuno-oncology drug pipeline.

Founding investors G7, GLP and Nio Capital returned to reinvest in the autonomous trucking system developer, in a round led by battery maker CATL.

Tencent and Legal & General co-led a series C round for genomic testing software provider Congenica that will fund the expansion of its partnership activities.

Aioi Nissay Dowa Insurance led a $13.6m series A round through a strategic partnership focusing on Mind Foundry's machine learning software.