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Online skills platform developer Sanjieke disclosed over $31m in funding from investors including Udemy while gaming guild Avocado Guild pulled in $18m through a round co-led by Animoca Brands.

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

Samsung Next and Standard Industries unit 40North took part in a round that increased the transcription services provider's valuation to $2bn.

The corporate has backed the AI-equipped chatbot developer through a strategic alliance, boosting its latest round to $73.5m.

GV, Latacora and Salesforce Ventures have returned to back the app development software provider’s latest round, which closed at a $2.5bn valuation.

The CyberAgent, Dentsu, FreakOut, Hakuhodo DY, Will Group and Z Holdings-backed adbot developer is set to list on TSE’s Mothers Market on December 23.

VKR Holdings is a cornerstone investor of the venture partnership’s Fund 1, which will back early-stage companies developing technologies designed to alleviate climate change.

Tencent is set to exit the location-tracking technology developer in an acquisition by Life360 that follows over $100m in venture funding.

Coinbase Ventures contributed to a $55m round for music-focused NFT platform developer Royal while neural search technology developer Jina AI raised $30m in an SAP-backed round.

Sumer Juneja, Lydia Jett, Vikas Parekh and Dennis Chang have all ascended at SoftBank Investment Advisers, which runs the corporate's Vision Funds.