Oxford Sciences Innovation's portfolio company BibliU has secured $10m in a series A round led by Nesta Impact Investments.

Ntwrk co-led the round for Faze Clan through a commercial partnership that will involve the latter's esports merchandise integrating with its video commerce platform.

Mobile game studio Nifty Games secured funding in an Axiomatic and Century Game-backed round as it gets ready to release its first title.

Each Friday the Global Corporate Venturing Deal Net rounds up the week’s smaller deals and tracks the emerging companies accessing corporate funds.

Asset purchasing platform developer OpenInvest lured ABN Amro Ventures to a $10.5m round that pushed its overall funding to nearly $24m.

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

Novo has backed automated molecule and material discovery business Kebotix, co-founded by former Harvard University professor Alán Aspuru-Guzik.

The Baidu-backed advanced chemicals developer secured $11.4m in a series A round featuring Novo with a targeted close of $15m.

GV has contributed to the $30m in funding revealed by on-demand cloud network service Alkira when it emerged from stealth this week.

GLP and Ascot Group supplied series A funding for goods-tracking technology provider Parsyl that will support recruitment and technology development.