The round included Jubilant Biosys, an existing investor in the liver disease drug startup as well as its contract research organisation partner.

Cisco Investments and Google have both made early-stage bets on Isovalent, a developer of cloud networking management and security tools.

Advancing research from University of Pennsylvania, Kira was formed three years ago and made its public debut yesterday with $46m in funding.

Bertelsmann Asia Investments led a round sized at tens of millions of dollars for the protein-based food manufacturer, investing alongside Fosun RZ Capital, Houwei Capital and Microidea.

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

Prologis Ventures and Nationwide Ventures both contributed to an $11.3m round for industrial safety device provider Kinetic.

Ysios Capital has supplied a series A extension that follows an initial tranche co-led by Kurma Partners and Sunstone Life Science Ventures in November 2020.

Based on Aalto University and VTT research, IQM Quantum Computers has lured investors including Tencent to bring its equity and grant funding total to $83.9m.

IQM Quantum Computers has lured investors including Tencent to an ongoing series A round that brought its total equity and grant funding to about $84m.

Stanford-StartX Fund-backed Onfleet has now raised $20m to date after securing series A funding to grow its last-mile delivery business.