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Oregon State University’s semiconductor production technology spinout Inpria has collected $31m in series C funding led by existing shareholder JSR Corporation.

The University Technology Fund hopes to tap investment funds and development finance institutions to raise additional capital.

Existing backer SoftBank returned to help the telecommunications data platform developer close a round co-led by four investors.

New investors PepsiCo, Maersk, Verizon and NTT Docomo joined existing backers including Avery Dennison, Amazon Web Services, Merck, Qualcomm and Samsung in the round.

Qualcomm Ventures contributed to a series E round that boosted the endpoint cybersecurity software provider's post-money valuation to $1.1bn.

Tencent participated in a $21.5m round for the IoT management software provider, which has now raised about $65m altogether.

The Alphabet startup accelerator has revealed nine AI-focused startup companies that will join the first cohort at its Tokyo campus.

Touch-based user interface developer UltraSense secured the cash in a Robert Bosch-led round with contributions from Asahi Kasei and Sony.

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2019 was the year of awakening for many African scenes.

Fonds de solidarité FTQ has officially invested $5m in the fourth fund of ULB's Theodorus, with Théo Risopoulos named as the first team member of a new Quebec office.