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Main Sequence Ventures contributed to a $3.2m round that brought predictive crop management technology developer FluroSat's funding total to $8.6m.

While slightly less than the 16 generated by UC Davis past year, the university remains pleased with the performance of internal tech transfer operations.

Blackstone will purchase the advertising platform Vungle in a deal giving exits to corporates Alphabet and Verizon.

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

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

University of Wyoming Foundation has contributed to a round for inter-orbital satellite shuttle service provider Momentus which brought its overall funding haul to $34m.

CAS-founded industrial automation spinout VIPioneers has added $14.5m to an angel sum of undisclosed size it received from CAS’s Cash Capital two years ago

Diamond-based identity tag developer Dust has received commitments from Airbus Ventures and Lockheed Martin Ventures in the Kleiner Perkins-led round.

Trading conglomerate Itochu was among the investors in supply chain IoT technology developer Traxens’ round, which follows a strategic partnership and equity deal agreed with Maersk last month.

SoftBank is the largest shareholder in CloudMinds, owning more than a third of the AI and robotics technology developer that is targeting an overseas listing in the US.

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