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

Ferguson's investment arm is in weekly contact with portfolio companies and expects digitisation to be more widely adopted in the construction industry as work practices change.

Carnegie Mellon University call centre analytics software spinout Voci Technologies is to be acquired after raising $17.9m of equity and debt financing.

Discovery Communications will exit the cybersecurity automation platform developer in a $145m cash-and-share deal following $29m in venture funding.

FIS Ventures is set to invest up to $150m in the next three years on behalf of its financial technology-focused parent company and has sealed its first deals.

General Atlantic has supplied equity and secured shares through a secondary transaction, and will aid the CMU-founded language app developer's international growth objectives.

Federated Wireless secured the return of founding investor Allied Minds for a $13.7m extension that will expand wireless communications services forged on Virginia Tech research.

Boehringer Ingelheim Venture Fund co-led a series A round set to drive clinical work on UC Berkeley-founded Actym Therapeutics' immunotherapy pipeline.

Novo and Pivotal BioVenture Partners both invested as the lung disease therapy developer took its overall funding close to $100m.

The metal printing technology producer increased its total funding to $138m in a round led by Petronas-sponsored Piva that included TNSC.