Sectors

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

SoftBank and Renren-backed online financial services provider SoFi will list on the New York Stock Exchange at an $8.65bn valuation double that of its last round.

CWRU‘s pain neurostimulation spinout has secured series BB funding ahead of a 180-patient trial.

Biopolymer material decontamination company Karamedica and genomic sequencing provider Murrieta Genomics have both joined UC Riverside's newly-launched Life Sciences Incubator.

Snowflake Ventures put up $20m for the cloud cybersecurity platform developer's latest round, which included existing backer Liberty Global Ventures.

Artificial intelligence processor developer Horizon Robotics added $400m in series C2 funding to the $150m it raised last month.

Partners Healthcare-backed precision oncology drug developer Scorpion has now raised a total of $270m in funding in the past year.

Fabrics trading platform developer Baibu has closed a series C-plus round led by GLP subsidiary Hidden Capital and has now raised $540m inside three years.

Salesforce Ventures has backed enterprise data query software developer Starburst in a move aimed at strengthening its Tableau data visualisation tool.

BioMérieux's molecular cancer diagnosis spinoff has agreed to a $230m purchase by women's health-focused Hologic.

Boston Scientific-backed pain cessation implant developer Neuros has secured $38m in a round co-led by Sectoral Asset Management and Amzak Health.