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

Bruns Machine vehicle HDM has contributed to a $14.2m seed round for food resource forecasting platform Crisp, which has just emerged from stealth.

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

Oxford spinout Semmle has been acquired by GitHub, a subsidiary of Microsoft, providing exits to investors including Accel that had supplied $31m in funding.

Goldman Sachs has led a $147m funding round for cybersecurity developer Acronis, pushing the company’s valuation beyond the $1bn mark.

The data management technology producer plans to invest $100m through an innovation fund and $50m through a social impact vehicle.

A new $10.4m vehicle targeting South Africa's university ecosystem is due to be approved on September 28.

Existing shareholder Goldman Sachs has co-led a $268m series E round for GitLab that valued the GV-backed software development platform at $2.75bn.

Intel Capital was among the returning investors in a round confirmed by the enterprise AI software provider, now valued at $1.2bn, to be $206m in size.

Edenred, Samsung, Swiss Post and Swisscom all returned in a $45m series B round for Beekeeper, which is targeting accelerated adoption of its workforce communications platform.

Monthly analysis: July-August 2019