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Emory University's endowment fund was among the LPs that chipped in for the venture capital firm’s Continuum I fund, which has closed at $56.6m.

The drone data software provider, which counts several corporates among its existing investors, has now disclosed $137m in overall funding.

Existing investors MassMutual Ventures and GV returned to help cyber risk management service CyberGRX bring its overall funding to $100m.

Digital publishing software provider Scribble Technologies has been acquired by Rock Content after raising more than $50m from backers including Rogers and OpenText.

The cloud interconnect platform developer raised $24.2m from investors including Orange Digital Ventures, Open CNP, UL Invest and SNCF Digital Ventures.

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

The number of acquisitions of companies that have received corporate backing had been decreasing over the past few years but by the end of October this year it registered a rebound.

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

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

Mac Ventures will receive support from Yeshiva University business school students, making early-stage investments in a number of tech-oriented sectors.

The Alphabet unit has bought shares in the data management platform from Serena Capital at a reported valuation of $1.4bn.