Complion collected funding from investors including the multi-university-backed Ohio Innovation Fund for its regulatory compliance software platform catered to sites conducting clinical research.

Richard Chylla, executive director of MSU Technologies, has taken over as chairman of Autm's board of directors, succeeding Alison Campbell.

University of Minnesota's Discovery Launchpad incubator is currently supporting eight projects based on university research with resources including office space and mentoring.

The wholesale fashion e-commerce platform will expand into Asia with the proceeds from the Itochu-led round, which boosted its total funding to $36m.

Catapult has partnered St. Cloud Capital to buy the electronic greeting card platform for an undisclosed sum, allowing Sony and Overbrook Entertainment to exit.

Mutual Life Insurance has tapped its investment unit to take part in a $26.5m round that increased the business relationship platform operator's overall funding to more than $40m.

Geothermal heating and cooling system provider Dandelion Energy received $16m in a Comcast Ventures-led round that included GV and Lennar.

Each Friday the Global Corporate Venturing Deal Net rounds up the week’s smaller deals and tracks the emerging companies accessing corporate funds.

Novartis and Johnson & Johnson have contributed to a series A round for Vor Biopharma, an oncology drug developer co-founded by PureTech Health.

Samsung Next and GreatPoint Ventures supplied series A capital for emergency response software provider RapidDeploy, which recently moved from South Africa to the US.