BMW, Continental, Knorr-Bremse and VinFast backed the autonomous perception technology developer, which traces its roots to Technion.

The Stanford-backed blockchain development platform increased its valuation to $3.5bn in the series C round.

The warehouse robot developer’s latest round has pushed its total funding past the $200m mark since being founded out of Stanford in 2017.

The Engine was among the investors that helped the lithium mining process developer raise a series B round first announced last month.

The Engine has reinvested in Lilac Solutions, a lithium extraction technology developer building on research at Northwestern University.

Stanford University has backed a round that will help the nickel-hydrogen battery developer finance construction of a Gigafactory.

UNC Chapel Hill’s agricultural technology developer AgBiome has increased its overall funding to $230m following the series D round.

Cornell spinout Lexeo Therapeutics has added $100m to its coffers thanks to a series B round co-led by D1 Capital Partners and Eventide Asset Management.

Keio’s synthetic silk producer increased its valuation to over $1.2bn in a round led by Carlyle Japan Partners.

The Tsinghua-backed data storage company has secured backing from corporates Legend Holdings and Hundsun to further develop its technology.