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

AV8's Baris Aksoy has teamed up with his old unit Intel Capital in a round that lifted the cybersecurity software developer's overall funding to more than $24m.

The Israeli investment arm of Access Industries joined Workday Ventures to help bring the human resources software provider's overall funding to $89.5m.

China-based education services provider Beijing Logicreation Information & Technology, which counts internet company Tencent among its backers, filed for a RMB1.04bn ($152m) IPO on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange’s ChiNext board in September.

SAIC Hengxu participated in a $14.7m round for semiconductor technology developer Shanghai ChipOn Microelectronics Technology.

Real Web has led a $12m equity and debt round for automotive marketing technology developer MotorK.

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

Zhejiang University-backed optical chip maker XY Technology will put the series B cash to strengthening its capacity and product.

Sompo, Fujitsu and Relx-backed Palantir went public yesterday and fetched a $20.6bn valuation – only marginally above the $20.3bn it was worth in 2015.

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

The cybersecurity company was once listed on NYSE, before an acquisition by Intel and a subsequent spinoff, and has now put a $100m placeholder figure on its planned IPO.