BlueDot, a disease containment technology spinout set up by St Michael’s Hospital and Mars Innovation, has secured series A capital.

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

Business lending marketplace C2FO has collected $200m in a round led by SoftBank Vision Fund that reportedly included Allianz X.

Glovo, which counts several corporates as investors, has entered discussions with Uber and Deliveroo over a possible acquisition, while SoftBank could potentially provide equity funding.

HKU has selected 25 university-linked businesses to receive funding from its portion of the government-funded Technology Start-up Support Scheme for Universities.

Novel, PayPal and Qualcomm-backed Viva Republica almost doubled its valuation to $2.2bn and has now raised more than $260m altogether.

The open-source database developer has now raised more than $108m in total, having secured $55m in a round backed by Alphabet's GV unit.

Novo provided $72m in series E funding for the waste-to-ethanol technology producer, which counts the likes of Mitsui, Siemens and Petronas as existing investors.

Allied Minds has returned again for a series B round that took the firm's geospatial data analytics technology subsidiary's total funding to about $96m.

Airbus and Ebri were among the participants in a series B round that took the geospatial data analytics technology developer's total funding to about $96m.