Alphabet-backed language learning platform developer Duolingo has now raised $183m altogether and has increased its valuation 60% to $2.4bn.

Maersk Growth helped the food retail software provider increase the size of the round to $25m at a reported $100m valuation.

Each Friday the Global Corporate Venturing Deal Net rounds up the week’s smaller deals and tracks the emerging companies accessing corporate funds.

Harvard University’s Wyss Institute has partnered Northpond Labs to create a research and innovation alliance equipped with $12m in funding.

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

Game creation platform developer Roblox has filed for a $1bn offering that will come after $500m in funding from investors including Tencent.

GlaxoSmithKline's corporate venturing unit is now an independent firm with a $500m fund anchored by its former parent.

MPM Capital and Qiming Venture Partners USA have co-led a series A round for Umoja Biopharma, based on research at Purdue University and Seattle Children’s Research Institute.

The Salesforce-backed anti-fraud technology provider took its valuation past $1.3bn in a series E round that pushed its overall funding to $225m.

Zachary Ellis was the director of new ventures at Ohio State University for over three years but has left to join the institution’s long-time partner Rev1 Ventures.