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

Alphabet subsidiary Google has agreed to acquire data analytics platform developer Looker, supplying an exit to Alphabet unit CapitalG.

Qualcomm Ventures and existing investor Huami were among the participants in a series D round that took the specialist chipmaker's overall funding past $130m.

Next47, GV and BMW iVentures helped bring Yellowbrick Data's overall funding to $173m in a series C round that will help service demand for Yellowbrick's date warehousing product.

Slack Fund-backed Troops has added series B funding from investors led by Aspect Ventures, bringing the sales team collaboration software developer’s total to about $22m.

UC Berkeley's custom semiconductor spinout has now raised $125m, after Qualcomm Ventures joined existing investors such as Osage University Partners for a $65.4m series D round.

Tencent returned to reinvest in the AI chip developer through a $43.4m round that comes in the wake of a larger round last August.

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

The real estate deals database has secured a mixture of equity and debt financing from Susquehanna Growth Equity, and will redeem series A shares owned by DMGT.

The cloud-based collaboration network increased its overall funding to $36m with a series B round backed by Microsoft's M12 subsidiary.

SoftBank China Venture Capital has backed 3D computer vision technology developer Deptrum, which is targeting applications ranging from virtual reality to robotics in industries including retail.