Daiichi Life helped sales technology provider BellFace take its total funding above $80m while ZKTube Labs and Boom Entertainment each raised $15m.

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

Q&A with Christopher Park, investment director, UL Ventures

Eat Just’s cultured meat subsidiary secured the funding from new and returning backers four months after a $170m tranche of the round.

Jabbar Internet Group-backed flexible rental property provider Blueground has pulled in $140m of equity funding and $40m of debt through its latest funding round.

The Mastercard-backed payment software provider has raised over $1.2bn pre-IPO and has opted to float on the Nasdaq Global Select Market.

Illumina has anchored the second fund to be closed by the venture firm it sponsors, with Ireland Strategic Investment Fund among the limited partners.

The cancer treatment developer is set to go public in an offering which would represent exits for Pfizer Ventures, Leaps by Bayer and Ipsen.

The luxury fashion re-sale platform, which counts Virgin among its earlier investors, has pushed its overall funding past the $140m mark.

Goat Group led the online streetwear marketplace's series B round, which lifted its overall funding to $80m.