Biopharmaceutical firm Jubilant Life Sciences has licensed molecules with potential to fight cancer to a new venture formed with Frazier Healthcare Partners.

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

Vroom, the AutoNation-backed used car marketplace that completed a $254m series H round last December, has confidentially filed for an initial public offering scheduled for next month.

Medical data aggregation tool developer Owkin increased its series A round to $52m after an extension backed by existing investors GV, Eight Road Ventures and F-Prime Capital.

Telus Ventures has placed a bet on debt recovery software developer Symend in a round bringing the latter's lifetime funding to $60m.

Salesforce Ventures' documentation software investment Conga is to merge with Apttus in a bid to further extend its product offering following three acquisitions by the business in 2018.

Uber has led a $170m investment in StanfordStartX Fund-backed Lime that closed alongside Lime’s acquisition of Uber’s micromobility subsidiary Jump.

Kingsoft’s cloud services subsidiary priced shares at the middle of the range but upsized the offering to raise $510m, with shares soaring 27% on the first day of trading.

Alphabet has contributed to a $400m for Sidewalk Infrastructure Partners, a spinoff from the conglomerate’s smart cities technology subsidiary Sidewalk Labs.

Uber has led a $170m investment in Lime that also included GV and closed alongside Lime’s acquisition of Uber’s micromobility subsidiary Jump.