Mental health app developer Lyra Health raised $235m from investors including Salesforce while blockchain development software provider Secret Network launched a $225m ecosystem fund.

Vision Fund 2 invested in e-commerce software provider Shoplazza and digital therapeutics developer Big Health as part of what is becoming a busy January.

Salesforce was among the investors that backed the virtual health service’s latest round, helping it take its funding to $216m altogether.

Q&A with Rob Coppedge, CEO, Echo Health Ventures

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

Volkswagen Group invested a nine-figure amount in 24M Technologies while SoftBank participated in a $100m series C round for Pixis.

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

Porter Alliance for Innovative Medicines will be equipped with $130m to advance research from Stanford’s Innovative Medicines Accelerator.

Richard Chylla will start as executive director of University of Virginia’s Licensing and Ventures Group next week after more than a decade at Michigan State University.

Johnson & Johnson, Novo and Alphabet all invested in the clinical data platform developer’s latest round, as big data analytics moves further into healthcare.