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

San Raffaele-Telethon gene therapy spinout Genespire has picked up series A funding from Sofinnova Partners to target inherited metabolic diseases and primary immunodeficiencies.

The investment and financial advice app developer raised the money at an $800m valuation, in a round led by $80m from LendingTree.

A consortium including Continental Grain, Bunge and Tekfen has pushed the crop nutrition product developer's total funding to more than $186m.

Samsung, Sompo, Nationwide and Micron took part in a series C round that will help the automotive technology developer expand its product offering and geographic footprint.

Andreessen Horowitz has led a $50m series D round for Figma that more than quadrupled the O’Reilly-backed design software developer’s valuation to $2bn.

Axa Venture Partners and Orange Digital Ventures backed a $27.2m round that will fund product development and international growth for the employee engagement software provider.

The Chinese surveillance and security technology provider, which counts Winner Technology as an investor, pulled in $14.1m that will fund AI research.

Robocath, which is developing robotic-assisted technology for cardiovascular diseases, has collected capital from investors including TUS-Holdings.

BGU-founded identity verification technology provider Secret Double Octopus has added $15m to its coffers, three years after closing its series A round.