Corelight, a network cybersecurity platform developer based on UC Berkeley technology, will use the cash to accelerate product development, research, sales and marketing.

Salesforce-backed app assessment platform Pendo has achieved unicorn status following a series E round that nearly doubled its total funding to $206m.

Intel Capital's Wendell Brooks is among the donors to a philanthropic fund that will invest in early-stage University of Michigan spinouts.

Winnebago Industries has co-led a $60m series B round for electric chassis developer Motiv Power Systems that will help fund the launch of a new production facility.

The edge computing technology developer revealed it has raised a total of almost $280m, $145m coming from a series C round co-led by HPE.

Takeda is set to emerge with almost 26% of Phathom Pharmaceuticals, which has licensed one of its gastrointestinal disease drugs, and which is targeting $158m.

UT-Dallas's cross-disciplinary Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship has promoted its assistant director Paul Nichols to director.

Station Houston CEO Gaby Rowe is to join the Rice University-operated Ion startup incubation project as executive director.

The fund will invest $1m of capital each year in University of Florida spinouts that have already secured the support of one external investor for the round in question.

Existing investor OATV took part in a $20m debt and equity round that boosted the total raised by the research services platform to approximately $78m.