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

SoftBank Vision Fund returned to reinvest in proximity services provider Reef, which has also launched a $300m real estate fund with fellow backer Oaktree Capital Management.

Robotic picker provider Kindred Systems is set to be bought in a $262m cash transaction that will hand exits to Tencent and GV.

Ruwan Weerasekera, Penny Bodle, Avi Golan, Ted Fike and Justin Wilson have all left SoftBank Investment Advisers following earlier departees Maria Khan and Carolina Brochado.

The AIG, Illumina, Alphabet and Orient Life-backed cell therapy developer priced its shares at the bottom of the range to raise $70.6m.

Campbell Soup-backed Acre Venture Partners has made a strategic investment in fungi-based protein supplier Meati to bring its funding total to more than $32m.

Stage 1 Ventures led the latest round for the wireless charging technology provider, a spinout of Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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

Business financial tool marketplace Fundera has been bought by NerdWallet after raising some $15m from investors including Susquehanna Growth Equity.

Intel is set to buy Stanford University-backed machine learning optimisation business SigOpt, which had raised at least $8.6m in funding.