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

NYU-founded game training platform developer Statespace has now raised $48m in total, having closed its second round in six months.

Gene editing technology developer Metagenomi advances research from UC Berkeley and has raised a series A co-led by Bayer.

The unit, which oversees a portfolio including NextDoor, Pony.ai, Bird and Hippo, will operate as part of Comcast's business development division.

The sales readiness software producer added SoftBank Vision Fund 2 to an investment base already containing Qualcomm Ventures at a reported $500m valuation.

SoftBank Vision Fund 2 and Baidu Capital co-led a $182m round for the agricultual drone developer that will support research and development.

Toyota and EDF-backed Nuvve, a developer of electric vehicle charging technology, is merging with Newborn Acquisition Corp to form a $202m business.

Gene editing technology developer Metagenomi closed its first round since emerging from stealth, with Leaps by Bayer the co-lead.

Restart the Future is tasked with helping to build 1,000 Swedish startups and its partners include Ericsson, Nordea, Amazon Web Services, Max Matthiessen, Ramboll, Werlabs, Mavenir, Mondial, Baker McKenzie and Stena.

The videoconferencing platform developer secured $60.4m in a Qi An Xin-led round that came just over 18 months after an investment by Tencent.

Cleantech-focused Breakthrough Energy Ventures II has attracted corporate backing on its way to a projected $870m close.