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CyberAgent has added seven team members at its corporate venturing unit in a bid to help portfolio companies in areas including technical aspects and public relations.

Nippon Life’s accelerator initiative has announced its latest members, who will work towards a demo day scheduled for March 2021.

The virtual room service provider boosted its valuation to $85m in a series A round that included existing investor Kraft Group.

Memorial Sloan Kettering spinout Paige’s series B total stands at $70m following a third tranche featuring Goldman Sachs and Healthcare Venture Partners.

3B Future Health Fund has participated in the cancer drug developer’s $5.8m extension round, investing alongside returning backers including M Ventures.

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

A total of 23 biopharmaceutical producers have committed capital to the vehicle, which will provide funding for the creation of new antibiotics.

Neurodegenerative disease company Transquis has emerged from stealth with $30m in series A funding to advance research conducted at Stanford.

Eir’s first fund will partner Nordics-based universities to invest in their spinouts, while also making selected deals in the rest of Europe and the US.

An unnamed endowment is among the LPs in Engineering Capital's third fund, which is aligned to the innovation pipelines at Stanford, Michigan and Toronto.

Reliance's 5G-focused digital network spinoff has added Qualcomm Ventures to an investor base that already includes Intel Capital and Facebook.