Sectors

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

Royal Circuit Solutions and Advanced Assembly have exited PCB design technology provider InspectAR, which has been bought by Cadence Design Systems.

The Google-backed spacecraft provider celebrated its latest launch with $1.9bn from unnamed investors at a reported $46bn valuation.

The Robert Bosch and Christie Digital-backed digital whiteboard developer has been bought by Lifesize after raising more than $63m in 14 years.

The consumer electronics producer will provide 40% of the capital for a fund partnership with the city of Yancheng sized at up to $1.45bn.

Hillhouse Capital is set to supply more than $830m for JD.com's pharmaceutical and medical services spinoff, which raised about $1bn last year.

Mobile game developer Playdots is being acquired six years after its only funding round, a $10m series A that included Tencent.

Honeywell has returned for the warehouse robotics system developer's latest round, having previously contributed to a $25m series B round together with Comcast.

The real estate group terminated the activities of its corporate venture capital fund last year having backed six portfolio companies.

Insurer NRMA returned to help the carbon-neutral courier service raise $13.7m to increase its overall funding to roughly $34m.

Collaboration partner Gilead Sciences provided $20m as the cancer therapy researcher extended its overall equity funding to $165m.