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

NEA has led a series B1 round for the smart contact lens developer, whose existing shareholders include Stanford-StartX.

Liberty Global Ventures, Gradient Ventures, Motorola Solutions Venture Capital, Numbase and KDDI Open Innovation Fund all backed the smart contact lens developer's series B-1 round.

Salesforce Ventures has thrown its weight behind Niche as the educational matchmaking service prepares to add thousands of schools to its platform.

Robocath, which is developing robotic-assisted technology for cardiovascular diseases, has formed a strategic partnership with Microport in connection with a $43.4m round.

UT Southwestern has formed central nervous system diseases treatment developer Taysha Gene Therapies with executives who previously worked for OSU's Avexis.

UC-backed Congruent Ventures returned to back EV charger hire service Amply Power four months after contributing to a $3.8m seed round.

Topia, a developer of remote work management software, closed a series D round shortly after integrating with software produced by new investor Workday.

KDDI, Sony and existing investor Liberty Media helped the passwordless authentication system developer close its first round since 2017.

Siemens has invested in Amply as part of a $13.2m round that came just three months after the EV charging service closed its seed funding.