University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign’s cost management platform developer has increased its valuation to $280m in its most recent round.

Existing backer Novo has helped the teeth straightening technology producer close a series D round hiking its overall funding to over $170m.

The Aviva and Foxconn-backed respiratory system developer beat the target for its series D round to bring its total funding to over $150m.

The Autodesk-backed cost management platform developer increased its valuation to $280m in its most recent round.

Urmin Group helped the tea provider raise $23.5m in a round that increased its overall funding to more than $39m.

Channel Talk, Segari and Borneo are all among the companies that have raised corporate venture capital, while Tepco celebrated an exit with the acquisition of Me:New.

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

The Citi and Alphabet-backed real estate platform hauled in $100m in series D equity and $263m in debt.

Versanis Bio secured $70 to commercialise a treatment licensed from Novartis, while Salesforce, Intel, Orange, Nike and Alphabet all celebrated exits.

The cybersecurity platform operator has achieved $160m of total funding through a series D round backed by Osage University Partners.