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

Trifacta, co-founded by Stanford and UC Berkeley researchers, has attracted nearly a dozen investors for a round that brought its total funding to $224m.

The SoftBank-backed biological analysis technology provider priced its shares above its range and will likely close the offering at $449m.

Telstra, NTT Docomo, BMW, Google, Infosys and ABN Amro were among nearly a dozen investors that helped bring the data sorting platform's overall funding to $224m.

SK E&S, Invenergy and Schneider Electric helpeed add $20m to the latest round for EV charging network Volta Charging, which includes a $44m debt facility.

Limited partners including Cisco Investments and Shell have helped McRock Fund II achieve a $60.9m close, putting it 80% of the way to its target.

The advertising agency has set up Zoomworks Ventures to back marketing and advertising technology startups and has already made its first three investments.

University of Arkansas Technology Ventures pushed forth with 47 invention disclosures in 2018-19, a 52% year-on-year rise.

Energy Impact Ventures has hired Matthias Dill, formerly a managing director at Statkraft Ventures, in a managing partner position.

Novartis and Novo helped provide $40m for the autoimmune disease therapy developer that supported its acquisition of joint venture Kanyos Bio.