Circulate Capital aims to cut ocean plastic pollution and has lured corporates including Chevron Phillips, PepsiCo, Coca-Cola, Dow Chemicals, Danone, Unilever and Procter and Gamble to its fund.

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

Impulse Dynamics, the developer of an implant for heart failure treatment, has collected $80.3m from investors including Zoll Medical, Abiomed and Minth Group.

Liberty Media, Centrica and Ofer Global have exited cybersecurity technology producer Indegy in a $78m purchase by Tenable.

Salesforce Ventures took part in a $75m series D1 round for sales optimisation platform Highspot that carried its overall funding to the $200m mark.

Consumer Technology Association is among the LPs in the first fund raised by the diversity-focused venture firm, which has closed at an oversubscribed $40.3m.

The retail AI technology developer received the capital in a SoftBank-led series A round that included Toyo Kanetsu Corporate Venture Investment Partnership.

Vanderbilt University joined fellow LPs including Consumer Technology Association in an oversubscribed close for the diversity-focused Harlem Partners Venture Fund I.

Green Shield Canada, Alterna Savings and several insurers chipped in as the fintech-focused venture firm closed its second fund.

Echo Health Ventures added $7.5m to a round that already included GV and Centene, helping the mental health care provider expand it to $67.5m.