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Property developer Greenland Holdings has returned to reinvest in mobile broadband infrastructure provider Baicells as part of a nine-digit renminbi round.

Chalmers Ventures portfolio company Biofrigas has set out plans for a $1.7m IPO but has already issued around $1.2m to existing connections.

The demographic phenomenon of ageing populations will present challenges to both developed and developing nations. Along with the challenges come opportunities, however, and corporate venture capitalists may be a particularly well-positioned group to help with them, as it is the connecting tissue between the world of incumbent corporate industry leaders and the space of disruptive innovation.

The gig worker support service secured $15m in a round led by Recruit Strategic Partners that also featured CMFG Ventures and existing investor Propel Venture Partners.

Toyota AI Ventures, Micron Ventures, Hella Ventures and Presidio Ventures have all invested in the video analytics system developer.

Slack-backed smart calendar developer Clockwise has now raised $31m altogether, Bain Capital Ventures having led its series B round.

Existing investors Gradient Ventures and Bloomberg Beta returned for a round that took the machine learning software developer's total funding to $27m.

The carmaker has followed up a $100m investment two years ago with a pledge to provide up to $200m for the Stanford-originated solid-state battery developer.

The protein degradation-focused drug developer, a spinout from Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, received $150m in series B funding and $20m in venture debt.

Wandelbots, which came out of Technical University of Dresden research, secured the funding as it publicly launched its robotics training software tool.

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