Illumina and Mayo Clinic have reinvested in the genomics services platform, which has closed the first tranche of its series B round.

The Global University Venturing deal net rounds up all the latest smaller deals and tracks emerging companies accessing university funds.

Based on research conducted at Caltech and Nasa, Virtualitics has now raised more than $11m in funding for its VR data visualisation and analytics platform.

The travel services provider has led $10.5m round for curated tourism experience portal KKDay, taking its total funding to $22m.

Bertelsmann Asia Investments took part in a series B round that will be used to expand the apartment manager's services and develop its big data technology.

Existing investor Illumina Ventures is among the participants that have contributed to the gut-brain axis drug developer's series B round.

The artificial vision technology developer has closed the first tranche of a series B round backed by Intel, Renault and Robert Bosch.

Orange Digital Ventures, General Electric and Deutsche Telekom all took part as the Ben-Gurion University spinout added to its $7m series A.