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

Susquehanna International Group is set to exit the marketing collaboration software developer having invested just over a year ago.

University of Bristol-linked Graphcore is reportedly seeking $200m at a $2bn-plus valuation, in a deal that would bring its total to $660m.

The consulting firm's newly formed $3.5m Meta Ventures vehicle will accept applications until the end of this month for its Bring Your SaaS challenge.

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

Stanford-StartX Fund-backed Onfleet has now raised $20m to date after securing series A funding to grow its last-mile delivery business.

OSI joined investors including Aioi Nissay Dowa Insurance to bring the University of Oxford enterprise machine learning spinout's overall funding to $24.4m.

Aioi Nissay Dowa Insurance led a $13.6m series A round through a strategic partnership focusing on Mind Foundry's machine learning software.

China-based financial services provider Ant Group, spun off by e-commerce group Alibaba, intended to float on the Shanghai and Hong Kong stock markets.

Ant Group, the financial services subsidiary of China-based e-commerce group Alibaba, was due to raise a targeted $37bn in a dual listing in Shanghai and Hong Kong but the mega-initial public offering was unexpectedly blocked by an intervention from financial regulators in Beijing at the eleventh hour.

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