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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.

Castor Ventures Fund took part in a round that will be used to strengthen Ayar's optical interconnector technology, which is based on MIT research.

CU Boulder-founded quantum technology developer ColdQuanta has attracted series A funding to follow a $16.8m seed round closed two years ago.

New Oriental Industrial Fund helped Ronglian (aka Yuntongxun) close a series F round it claimed was the largest yet for a Chinese cloud communication technology producer.