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Penna and Company contributed to a round that lifted the total raised by the QBE and TD Ameritrade-backed enterprise automation software provider to $111m.

Cortex, a developer of big data-powered marketing tools, raised $22.3m in a round led by SoftBank's Latin America fund.

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

SK Telecom contributed to a $74.5m round for the cloud software provider that will support expansion internationally and in its home market of China.

The energy infrastructure operator has backed a $15m series D round for RiskIQ and a $14m series A for 1touch.io through investment subsidiary National Grid Partners.

Bertelsmann Asia Investments returned to co-lead digitisation technology startup DeepExi's series A-plus round with Sanxia Xintai Investment and GL Ventures.

NTT Docomo-backed Wasabi plans to use the proceeds from the $30m round to expand its hot cloud storage service in international markets.

Video messaging platform developer Loom, which counts Slack as an investor, closed a $28.8m round that reportedly doubled its valuation to $350m.

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

Amazon Alexa Fund contributed to the home automation technology producer's series C round through its Alexa Fund, revealing itself as an existing investor in the process.

Existing investors Hewlett Packard Enterprise, GV, Intel Capital, SingTel Innov8 and M12 all participated as the cybersecurity services provider took its total funding to $112m.