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

The artificial intelligence researcher is partnering Microsoft to enhnace the latter's Azure platform, and has netted $1bn from the corporate in return.

The Alexandria Real Estate Equities-backed regenerative medicine developer increased its total funding to $147m with a round led by Perceptive Advisors.

Deutsche Telekom Capital Partners invested in the Salesforce, WME and Netprice-backed customer data platform as part of a $55m series C round.

Starbucks has acquired an equity stake in the restaurant technology developer following a series B round that featured Starbucks franchisees Alshaya and Alsea.

Sinar Mas and DKSH returned to supply funding to e-commerce services provider aCommerce, in a round that brought its overall funding to roughly $120m.

The Simon-backed e-scooter rental service is looking to boost its valuation to $2.5bn through a series D round that could be up to $300m in size.

The Alphabet and Roc Nation-backed online trading platform secured the capital in a DST Global-led round at a $7.6bn valuation and has now raised more than $860m in total.

The CapitalG-backed local services portal is now valued at $1.7bn having nabbed $150m in a round led by Sequoia Capital that took its total funding to more than $420m.

Personal finance membership plan MoneyLion has signed up Capital One and MetaBank to a $100m series C round announced alongside $60m of previously undisclosed capital.