Sectors

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

The Max Group and TVS-backed fashion and beauty marketplace operator has listed on the BSE and NSE and has achieved a market cap of $13.5bn.

The Citi-backed customer engagement platform developer has set terms for an initial public offering which could top $400m.

Novartis eyecare subsidiary Alcon has agreed to acquire the Institut Mérieux, Ascension Health and MemorialCare Health System-backed MIGS technology provider.

The Ohio State spinout has gone public in an upsized IPO sized at approximately $182m.

The Alphabet and DTCP-backed graph software provider added $65m to its latest round, hiking its overall funding to about $580m.

BMW, Continental, Knorr-Bremse and VinFast backed the autonomous perception technology developer, which traces its roots to Technion.

The Salesforce, Workday and ServiceNow-backed software integration provider raised the sries E financing at a $5.7bn valuation.

The Stanford-backed blockchain development platform increased its valuation to $3.5bn in the series C round.

Vertex Pharmaceuticals and Illumina Ventures both contributed to a round that increased the genetic therapeutics developer's total funding to over $300m.

Takeda Ventures was among the participants in a $46.5m round closed nearly a year after its parent company launched a partnership with the Institut Curie spinout.