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The venture firm has hired Jayson Punwani a year after he left his partner position at corporate venturing unit Takeda Ventures.

Existing investors Lilly Asia Ventures and SBCVC returned for the multiomics product developer's latest round, in which it raised nearly $100m.

Dapper Labs, Solana and Tron are among the LPs in the venture firm’s latest fund, which has already backed Rain, Vauld, Lemon Cash, Tulip Protocol and Zebedee.

Cybersecurity platform developer SafeBreach and home improvement technology provider Block Renovation each raised $50m or over in corporate-led rounds.

UTEC is celebrating an exit as Agara is acquired by Coinbase for a reported $40m to $50m.

Johns Hopkins spinout Blade Therapeutics has agreed to a reverse merger that will net it $24.3m in Pipe financing from backers including Osage University Partners.

Google and Tencent returned to reinvest in e-commerce and on-demand services group GoTo as it prepares to go public at a valuation of up to $30bn.

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.