R3 Development Fund has backed a range of early-stage blockchain and confidential computing technology developers that leverage the corporate’s Corda and Conclave tools.

Stanford Law School has participated in early funding for Medchart, split across seed and series A rounds.

Carta, Coinbase Ventures and New York Life Ventures contributed to a round that boosted the retirement investment platform's overall funding to about $30m.

Mastercard and Samsung Next returned for authenication technology provider Hypr's series C round while risk management software provider Archipelago raised $34m.

Post Holdings led a $25m round for vegetarian meat brand Hungry Planet while Nium and Dataiku added to nine-figure funding totals.

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

Synthesia was co-founded by researchers at UCL, Stanford, Cambridge and TUM to build a platform that generates video content using artificial intelligence.

University of Sheffield spinout Rinri Therapeutics has collected $13.9m from investors including Boehringer Ingelheim Venture Fund and UCB Ventures.

Tectonic Therapeutic is the latest venture undertaken by Harvard’s serial entrepreneur Timothy Springer, who co-led the series A round.

EV Growth-backed online education platform developer Ruangguru pulled in $55m while ProSieben and Rocket Internet helped open banking platform developer Tink take its total funding to $344m.