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The ophthalmic biotherapeutics developer has completed a series A round co-led by Eli Lilly unit Lilly Asia Ventures nine months after it was founded.

Summation Health Ventures returned for a series C round that lifted the healthcare communication system provider's total funding to $45m.

The real estate data provider has agreed to buy property engine developer Homesnap for $250m in cash following $32m from investors including AH Belo.

This $57.5m cash injection for will support growth, product development and acquistions for the e-commerce services provider.

Boeing and corporate venturing unit HorizonX are being sued by bankrupt former portfolio company Zunum over claims of technology theft and fraud.

The banking cybersecurity technology developer, which counts Washington Trust, Live Oak Bank and Citizens National Bank, as investors, has hit $47m in total funding.

Aderans, DCM Holdings, Dentsu, Hakuhodo, Nippon TV, Nihon Kolmar, Settsu Warehouse, Shima Seiki, Yakuodo and Yodobashi Camera all backed the limestone-based material maker’s $19.7m round.

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

Backed by Uniseed, TenasiTech has commercialised scratch-resistant plastic additives pioneered at University of Queensland’s Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology.

M2P-Labs, a supplier of microbioreactors based on RWTH Aachen intellectual property, has agreed to an acquisition by Beckman Coulter Life Sciences.

The property and casualty insuance provider nearly doubled its overall funding with a strategic investment by MS&AD subsidiary Mitsui Sumitomo.