SoftBank Vision Fund 2 led a $300m round for business-to-business marketplace ElasticRun and co-led blockchain creation platform developer Aleo's $200m series B.

SoftBank Vision Fund 1 and Shopify both invested in the shipping management service's first round in three years, more than doubling its valuation to $8bn.

Academia-industry collaboration platform In-Part has been acquired by Inova, which is looking to consolidate its position in the biopharmaceutical partnering space.

Financial services provider Tribal raised $60m in a SoftBank-led series B round while Credit Saison invested $30m in a round for peer-to-peer lender Julo sized at up to $60m.

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

Intel and Alibaba-backed database software producer MariaDB agreed a $672m reverse merger while predictive analytics provider Pecan AI was one of three GV investments.

Constuction materials marketplace RenoRun's $142m Schneider Electric-backed series B round headed up some large rounds for Canadian companies also including League and Ekona Power.

SoftBank, owner of a portfolio including logistics unicorns ShipBob and Flock Freight, led the freight management service’s latest round at a $1.3bn valuation.

Randstad and Nationale-Nederlanden took part in the workplace analytics platform developer's latest round - both as existing investors, Crunchr confimed.

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