UC Berkeley has chosen professor of finance Richard Lyons for the newly-created position of chief innovation and entrepreneurship officer.

Third Rock contributed to a $100m series C round for UIC's cancer drug developer Revolution that brought its total to $226m.

Prudential Financial and existing shareholder PayU have backed a $135m series E round for Remitly, which concurrently obtained $85m in debt financing.

Haldor Topsøe has returned to participate in a $102m series C round for the cancer treatment developer.

GV-backed marketing platform Signpost has added $52m to its coffers following a series D round, bringing its total funding to more than $87m.

Menlo Security has now raised approximately $150m altogether, with American Express Ventures and HSBC both returning for the latest round.

Building on UC Berkeley research, cybersecurity software company Menlo Security has now raised approximately $150m altogether.

The Spain-based event and activity discovery platform has now raised in excess of $70m altogether, having secured $35m from investors including Rakuten and Atresmedia.

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

MedaRed is targeting a blood-clotting factor called fibrin linked to neuron-toxic inflammation in diseases including Alzheimer’s, based on the work of Katerina Akassoglou at UCSF’s School of Medicine.