Health

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

Novartis eyecare subsidiary Alcon has agreed to acquire the Institut Mérieux, Ascension Health and MemorialCare Health System-backed MIGS technology provider.

The Ohio State spinout has gone public in an upsized IPO sized at approximately $182m.

Vertex Pharmaceuticals and Illumina Ventures both contributed to a round that increased the genetic therapeutics developer's total funding to over $300m.

Takeda Ventures was among the participants in a $46.5m round closed nearly a year after its parent company launched a partnership with the Institut Curie spinout.

The health monitoring software provider, which counts iFlytek as an investor, has received $78.2m in a round led by Huaxing Growth Capital.

Capgemini, Salesforce and ServiceNow helped visual commerce platform developer Threekit net $35m while Tencent led a $26m round for UGC management software provider Mod.io.

Multicorporate-backed online pharmacy operator API Holdings has filed for an offering that will not involve its shareholders selling their stakes.

DivcoWest, JLL and Allegion combined in a $60m round for workplace data platform developer VergeSense while Sanofi committed up to $60m to ocular therapeutics developer Gyroscope.

The Legend Holdings, Kangji Medical and Poly Group-backed surgical robotic arm developer raised the cash in a series C round co-led by Boyu Capital, Temasek and Sequoia Capital China.

Cox Enterprises led a $58m round for healthcare delivery software provider Enlace Health while Johnson & Johnson snapped up portfolio company OrthoSpin for almost $80m.