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

Main Sequence Ventures has returned for a $10m series B round that will drive Kasada's expansion efforts following its opening of headquarters in the US.

Axa Venture Partners was among the limited partners that have helped the deep tech-focused venture firm raise $59.4m for its second fund.

The business optimisation services provider has pulled in series B-plus funding through a round co-led by Ipsos that will fund R&D work.

MassMutual Ventures, Synchrony and Blue Venture Fund all returned as the user authentication platform developer almost doubled its overall funding.

Access Industries helped supply $33m in equity funding for the cloud management software developer, which also unlocked up to $20m in venture debt financing.

Returning investor Comcast Ventures contributed to a round that pushed the total raised by the security management software developer to $43m.

One vaccine developer, CureVac, has received a generous backing from Germany’s government-owned development bank KfW, while another – Vaxcyte – went public raising $250m.

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

Salesforce and National Grid took part in a series B round for the infrastructure monitoring technology developer that was co-led by Petronas subsidiary Piva.

Salesforce Ventures returned to participate in a round that hiked DevOps technology provider Copado's overall funding to $47m.