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Fifth Wall hopes to close its climate technology-focused fund at $500m having secured capital from Invitation Homes and Ivanhoé Cambridge.

The mobile health app developer's series C round was led by Susquehanna International Group and also featured Horizon Healthcare Services.

Silicon Motion and Western Digital returned to participate in a series B round which will fund work on DeepVision's edge computing hardware and software.

Hitachi, Orbia, Jaguar Land Rover, Doral, TDK and Trumpf all contributed to a round closed by battery recycling service provider Battery Resourcers.

UChicago spinout NowPow has been acquired by Unite Us for an undisclosed amount.

Xiaomi Ventures co-led the manufacturing industry’s digitalisation technology provider’s $30.9m round, participating alongside new and returning investors.

Daiichi Life helped sales technology provider BellFace take its total funding above $80m while ZKTube Labs and Boom Entertainment each raised $15m.

Oracle has committed $205m to an initial public offering for the DNA sequencing technology developer with a $410m target for its close.

The NFT-based fantasy sports operator was valued at $4.3bn in a series B round led by SoftBank that came just seven months after its series A.

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

Q&A with Christopher Park, investment director, UL Ventures