Qualcomm Ventures and existing investor Huami were among the participants in a series D round that took the specialist chipmaker's overall funding past $130m.

Next47, GV and BMW iVentures helped bring Yellowbrick Data's overall funding to $173m in a series C round that will help service demand for Yellowbrick's date warehousing product.

Northleaf Venture Catalyst Fund II reached its hard cap with commitments from Manulife and Bank of Montreal, adding to capital from backers including Sun Life.

Randstad Innovation Fund and Google's Gradient Ventures invested in a series B round that boosted the recruitment automation platform’s total funding to $64m.

Slack Fund-backed Troops has added series B funding from investors led by Aspect Ventures, bringing the sales team collaboration software developer’s total to about $22m.

UC Berkeley's custom semiconductor spinout has now raised $125m, after Qualcomm Ventures joined existing investors such as Osage University Partners for a $65.4m series D round.

Erin Keller, formerly a senior associate at Yamaha Motor Ventures & Laboratory Silicon Valley, has joined Toyota AI Ventures in a similar role.

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

Strand Therapeutics has raised seed funding to develop an mRNA engineering platform based on MIT research as it looks to assemble a pipeline of oncological drug candidates.

Jay Schrankler will head up UChicago's Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation from August 1, joining from University of Minnesota's OTC.