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

Apple has bought Inductiv to integrate the latter's machine learning data cleanup expertise, based on Stanford, Wisconsin-Madison and Waterloo faculty innovations.

Salesforce Ventures, Swisscom Ventures and returning investor GV helped the computer vision technology provider take its total funding past $120m.

The visual privacy technology developer received $13.5m from investors including Axa Venture Partners, Omron Ventures and Hyundai.

Statkraft Ventures contributed to a round for the 3D geospatial analysis platform developer that was led by BrightCap Ventures.

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

Smart sensor developer BYD Semiconductor has spun off from its parent company, electric vehicle producer BYD, with $265m secured at a valuation topping $1.3bn.

UAVC-backed antenna technology spinout FreeFall Aerospace has merged with one of its clients in order to focus its efforts on 5G communications.

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

US-based construction services provider Katerra received $200m in funding from the SoftBank Vision Fund I, the vehicle formed by telecoms conglomerate SoftBank.

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