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

Q&A with Phoebe Wang, principal, Shell Ventures

E14 Fund has contributed to a series A for Overjet, having previously backed the company’s seed round.

Amazon, Ford, Sumitomo, Cox Enterprises and Abdul Latif Jameel are set to score exits after the electric truck developer filed confidentially to go public.

The Salesforce and American Express-backed online payment platform developer is reportedly set to see its valuation explode in a new funding round.

SoftBank doubled down on the wearable performance gadget developer in a round that gave it a $3.6bn valuation.

The restaurant management software provider had received funding from Alphabet’s GV unit prior to the announcement of its IPO plans last week.

CapitalG-backed enterprise software producer Freshworks plans to float on the Nasdaq Global Select Market after reporting a boost in revenue this year.

Affiliate funds of Apollo Global Management are investing the cash in Caterpillar-backed energy storage software provider FlexGen.

The last-mile delivery service provider has bought the e-commerce software developer in a $42m deal enabling Dunnhumby and Woodman's Market to exit.