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Prepared by researchers from the Washington University, St Louis on behalf of The Yield Lab, sponsored by Rabo Strategic Ventures

The Lloyds Banking subsidiary has backed e-commerce fulfilment platform developer James and James, providing $15.5m in funding.

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

Unnamed investors have added $1.2bn to a round already featuring AIA, Mitsubishi, Visa, SCB, Astra International, Tencent, JD.com and Google that reportedly now totals near $3bn.

The pharmaceutical firm was among the investors in a series G round that valued precision medicine technology provider Tempus at $5bn.

Microsoft, PayU, Boston Consulting Group, CMT Digital and founding investor Intercontinental Exchange all backed the digital wallet provider's series B round.

ING has added $5m to a series B round for the natural language processing technology provider through a strategic partnership deal.

The SIG-backed enterprise software provider took its overall funding past the $100m mark in a series D-plus round led by VC firm Everest Venture Capital.

Owlcam has been acquired by Xirgo Technologies for an undisclosed sum two years after emerging from stealth, having raised $28m from investors including CSAA.

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RTL has paid an undisclosed amount for a 50% stake in Bedrock, the vehicle through which M6 has spun off its catch-up television and streaming services.