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Deepcore, Mitsubishi UFJ Capital, Oita Venture Capital and YJ Capital were among the backers that injected $18.7m into the computer security service provider.

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

JIC Venture Growth Investments has injected $19.2m into the IoT technology developer, which is already backed by Dentsu, NEC, NGK, Mikasa Shoji, Mitsui, Salesforce, SoftBank and Toyoda Gosei.

Science Creates will combine a $20m fund with wet-lab incubation to foster the west of England deep tech ecosystem in partnership with University of Bristol.

Gradient Ventures and Veridian helped increase the banking software developer’s total investment to over $32m.

The Chernin Group affiliate TCG has invested $30m in the operator of surf conditions forecaster Surfline.

SPDB International has joined Bertelsmann Asia Investments in a series A4 round that took the digitalisation technology provider's overall funding to at least $139m.

Renren, SoftBank, The Economist Group, Jipyong and S&P Global all invested in a debt and equity round for the risk intelligence provider.

Cloud-based enterprise software producer Salesforce agreed to acquire Slack, the US-based publicly listed communication platform which previously counted telecoms firm SoftBank, internet conglomerate Alphabet and media group Comcast among its backers.

Tbhe cybersecurity software provider, which counts SAP, Bank of Montreal, Singtel, NTT Docomo and Siemens, has now raised at least $111m in total.

SoftBank China Capital’s investment in a $30.6m round for the sensor manufacturer follows on from previous rounds backed by SIG China.