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For many of the attendees at the Global Corporate Venturing and Innovation Summit 2021 held late last month in Monterey, California, the conference was their first in-real life (IRL) event since the pandemic effectively stopped them in the first quarter last year after the previous summit.

Corporate-backed communications monetisation technology developer Matrixx Software raised $50m from Francisco Partners while cancer drug developer Abalos took the same in a BIVF-backed round.

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

The Real Web-backed automotive marketing software developer intends to use the IPO proceeds to accelerate the development of new products, fuel its M&A strategy and expand its customer base.

The Bloomberg Beta-backed machine learning technology provider's valuation passed the $1bn mark in a series C round which lifted its overall funding to $200m.

Tsinghua University-linked data protection software developer’s latest round valued the company at $621m.

Bond trading platform developer Trumid raised its latest round, featuring Singapore Exchange, at a $2.4bn valuation. This is one of the latest examples of such multi-million dollar deals from the roaring fintech space.

Solar wafer technology developer NexWafe bagged $45m in a Reliance Industries-led round while BDMI helped hike collectibles marketplace Rally's series B to the same size.

Thomson Reuters Ventures will target developers of enterprise software products which inform the business information provider's areas of interest.

DocuSign Ventures will invest in technologies such as process automation, smart contracts, digital payments and identity verification.

Lenovo Capital, Oppo and XunceTech were among the investors in the data protection software developer’s latest round, with the cash raised at a $621m valuation.