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Baidu is a limited partner in the third fund of its AI-focused investment unit, Baidu Ventures.

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

Oppo and Xiaomi have backed the streaming service leveraging blockchain for user content.

Food-sharing platform Olio is eyeing foreign markets with series B funding raised from investors including Delivery Hero’s corporate venture capital unit.

Senior care provider Homage has added series C financing to its coffers.

Ginger supplier Agricorp International has attracted $17.5m of series A funding from backers including AFEX and Vami Farms.

Notre Dame’s Pit Road Fund has re-invested in the enterprise blockchain deployment platform and was joined by Stanford Law School Venture Fund.

The data analytics software producer, which counts Alphabet, Salesforce and Amazon among as backers, raised a $1.6bn series H at $38bn valuation. It is a case in point for the upward pressure in valuations of companies from this space which we have been seeing.

The Citi and Alphabet-backed real estate platform hauled in $100m in series D equity and $263m in debt.

Versanis Bio secured $70 to commercialise a treatment licensed from Novartis, while Salesforce, Intel, Orange, Nike and Alphabet all celebrated exits.

The GV-backed candidate checking platform developer is fuelling its growth with fresh capital from FMR and stalwart investor T Rowe Price.