UTEC is celebrating an exit as Agara is acquired by Coinbase for a reported $40m to $50m.

Johns Hopkins spinout Blade Therapeutics has agreed to a reverse merger that will net it $24.3m in Pipe financing from backers including Osage University Partners.

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

The Citi-backed customer engagement platform developer has set terms for an initial public offering which could top $400m.

Novartis eyecare subsidiary Alcon has agreed to acquire the Institut Mérieux, Ascension Health and MemorialCare Health System-backed MIGS technology provider.

The Ohio State spinout has gone public in an upsized IPO sized at approximately $182m.

The Alphabet and DTCP-backed graph software provider added $65m to its latest round, hiking its overall funding to about $580m.

The Stanford-backed blockchain development platform increased its valuation to $3.5bn in the series C round.

Vertex Pharmaceuticals and Illumina Ventures both contributed to a round that increased the genetic therapeutics developer's total funding to over $300m.

SoftBank Vision Fund 2 was among the investors in the Recruit-backed business management platform developer’s latest round, which was closed at a $1.7bn valuation.