Sectors

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

Capital One-backed data access platform developer Okera boosted its overall funding to almost $30m and is investing in sales, marketing and engineering.

Next47 and Salesforce Ventures helped the logistics management software provider take its overall funding to more than $83m as Covid-19 causes delivery volumes to increase.

GV and Recruit both invested in a series C round that reportedly valued customer engagement platform developer Podium at about $1.5bn.

Singtel Innov8 returned for Cato Networks’ latest round, which advanced the enterprise networking technology provider’s total funding past $200m.

Salesforce Ventures and ABN Amro Ventures helped data privacy software producer Privitar push its overall funding to more than $140m.

Acciona, CLH, BP, Red Eléctrica, Enagás and Iberdrola are all backing Positive Energy+ which will provide financing and assistance to energy-focused technology developers.

Naver, Simon Property and O’Reilly Media-backed Foursquare is joining forces with peer Factual to create the world's biggest location intelligence provider.

The translational medicine-focused research services provider, which counts Renfu Pharmaceutical as an investor, has completed a Humanwell-backed round sized at about $56m.

Chishima Real Estate and Miraca helped add $6.8m to extend Kringle‘s latest round to $15.5m which will fund development of its rare disease treatments.

The employee management software provider closed a series C round featuring all its existing investors, which include Novel TMT Ventures.