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

Following the January merger of XebiaLabs and CollabNet VersionOne, Purdue spinout Arxan Technologies has also joined the group, now dubbed Digital.ai.

LinkedIn-backed Confluent secured the cash at a $4.5bn valuation, and the data streaming software producer has now raised more than $450m in total.

The Alibaba-backed e-commerce software and services provider is targeting $61.2m in an initial public offering on the Shanghai Stock Exchange.

Following the January merger of SIG-backed XebiaLabs and CollabNet VersionOne, Arxan Technologies has also joined the group, now dubbed Digital.ai.

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

Xiaomi is the second largest shareholder in Kingsoft's cloud services spinoff, which has filed to raise up to $100m on the Nasdaq Global Select Market.

Several corporate investors backed the latest $250 round raised by data management platform developer Cohesity at a valuation of $2.5bn. The deal is part of the dynamic broader space of big data technologies which have captivated the attention of corporates over the past decade.

Chinese Academy of Sciences vehicle Cash Capital provided up to $42.4m for the iris recognition technology developer, following a Gree investment in September.

The business-monitoring software developer secured new funding in an Intel Capital-led series C round also featuring SoftBank Ventures Asia and Samsung Next.

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