The round included a $10m investment by Ionis Pharmaceuticals which was provided as part of a collaboration agreement.

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

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

VIPKid investor Tencent has participated in an $80m series A round for its livestreamed tutoring offshoot, Dami Wangxiao.

Alexandria Venture Investments has helped UW's genetic sequencing technology developer TwinStand raise series A financing.

Existing investor Alexandria Venture Investments has helped genetic sequencing technology developer TwinStand increase its overall funding to $21.5m.

Inserm Transfer Initiative featured in the first round for VectivBio, a short bowel syndrome treatment developer spun out of Therachon following the latter's acquisition by Pfizer.

Novo took part in the first round for VectivBio, a short bowel syndrome treatment developer launched out of genetic disease drug developer Therachon.

Today’s deal net captures the smaller investments from across the university innovation ecosystem over the past two weeks.

In an extended version covering the holidays, Global Corporate Venturing has rounded up the period’s smaller deals and tracked the emerging companies accessing corporate funds.