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.

Nestlé bought the healthy meal kit delivery service three years after leading its series C round, in a deal that could reach $1.5bn with earnouts.

Mitsubishi was among the latest investors in the charging technology provider, joining the likes of Foxconn, Intel, Toyota, Haier, Delta, Schlumberger, Systech and Omar Zawawi Group.

Salesforce Ventures helped Odaseva, developer of an enterprise data governance platform, boost its overall funding to $40m.

Motley Fool Ventures led a series B round for water-supply intelligence provider Ketos that also included Citi and Illuminated Funds Group.

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

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

The Heska-backed company is currently working on a covid-19 test, its latest round having pushed its total equity funding to about $30m.