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

Optical component provider WaveOptics has added $13m to bring a series C round featuring Goertek and RBVC to $39m as it looks to ramp up production capacity.

Existing investors Discovery and Axel Springer have helped equip Group Nine Media with $50m to take the digital media group's overall funding to $190m since it was formed.

The gene editing startup, a spinout from Yale University, has launched with funding from investors including GV and Kleiner Perkins.

Alphabet subsidiary Sidewalk Labs and Ikea franchisee Ingka were among the participants in flexible furniture provider Ori's series B round.

New York Life Ventures and existing investor Salesforce Ventures both contributed to a round that increased the total raised by the sales analytics software provider to $100m.

TIAP, previously Mars Innovation, has lured drug firm Amgen to co-invest in portfolio businesses based on its members' health sciences research.

Trucode is advancing in vivo gene editing applications for disorders including sickle cell disease that grew from Yale research and has been backed by GV and Kleiner Perkins.

Julia Ognieva, who set up the LDN_LAB scheme while at Facebook, has joined accounting software provider Intuit.

Amazon Alexa Fund and Google Assistant Investments Program have chipped in for in-car game developer DriveTime's series A round.