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The Brazil-based venture firm has secured BASF and Syngenta Ventures as limited partners as it reaches a $17.2m close for an agritech fund with a $50m target.

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

The American Express-backed eyeglasses e-commerce platform has increased its valuation from $1.75bn to $3bn following series F and G rounds.

O'Reilly's OATV vehicle will exit web cybersecurity software provider in a deal consisting of $200m in cash and $575m of Fastly stock.

The Novel, PayPal and Qualcomm-backed finance management app developer has boosted its valuation to $2.6bn and its overall funding to $530m.

KKR has led a $150m round for Huohua Siwei that included Longfor Properties, after the online education provider added 100,000 users in under five months.

Intel Capital came in as a new investor for a round that pushed the genome engineering technology provider's overall funding to $260m.

NetScientific and EMV Capital have completed their merger to assemble a portfolio of 15 companies in healthcare, energy and industrial tech.

The TTO reported decreased spinout generation, licensing revenue and funding however marked a notable exit in the sale of Tissue Analytics.

On-demand grocery delivery service InstaShop had reportedly raised just $7m prior to the acquisition, with Souq and Jabbar Internet exiting.

The healthcare data producer raised $19m from investors including Johnson & Johnson for a round already including Amgen, McKesson, Horizon Health Services, Sanofi and UCB Pharma.