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

GV owns a 6.6% stake in the DevOps platform developer, which was valued at $6bn as of a secondary share sale late last year.

JSR is buying semiconductor manufacturing technology producer Inpria, giving an exit to fellow corporates SK Hynix, TSMC, Intel, Air Liquide, Applied Materials and Samsung.

Oregon State University spinout Inpria has agreed to a purchase by its existing shareholder JSR and will become a subsidiary of the petrochemical company.

Data recovery platform developer Rewind has closed a series B funding round backed by Atlassian’s investment arm, Atlassian Ventures, as well as FundFire.

Alibaba and Ping An-backed Prenetics is set to complete a reverse merger at a $1.25bn valuation. Exits from the broader genetics and gene therapeutics space appear to be in the middle of a valuation spike, according to our data.

Conductive Ventures returned for online savings platform developer Self Financial's $50m series E round while EV producer Volta Trucks completed its $43.6m series B.

Immutable, Abra and Francis Medical have all raised more than $50m, while MAZ Systems has been acquired by Zype.

LinkedIn is trying to build a network of content creators on its platform through an accelerator programme and $25m fund.

Online furniture retailer Gaia, warehouse robot provider Locus Robotics, recruitment platform developer Canvas and ESG software producer Measurabl all raised $50m.

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