HSBC Strategic Innovation Investments provided $5m for the financial services application platform, joining several other strategic backers.

Grain-industry data management platform Bushel secured $19.5m from Continental Grain among others to take its total funding to $28m.

The contract data analysis platform completed a series A round co-led by Microsoft's M12 unit, the second it has closed in under a year.

Rev1 Catalyst Fund II will fund startups generated through research by Nationwide Children’s Hospital, which has also backed the vehicle.

Cogitativo, developer of a data analysis platform for healthcare, has closed an $18.5m round led by Wells Fargo Strategic Capital.

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

Four Points Innovation has been formed with $130m in funding to nurture Duke drug discovery research, in the latest such move by Deerfield Management.

Caltech-founded ChromaCode has now raised $42.6m in all for its molecular diagnostics technology business.

UC Berkeley-founded Anyscale has come out of stealth with the backing of investors including House Fund, Ant Financial and Intel Capital.

Ohio State University has signed up to a spinout-focused life sciences venture vehicle run by regional firm Rev1 Ventures that stands at three times the size of its precursor.