NYU-founded cognitive skills building software developer Statespace secured investors including Khosla Ventures to bring its overall funding to $19m.

NEA has led a series B1 round for the smart contact lens developer, whose existing shareholders include Stanford-StartX.

Princeton University is a long-standing partner of Qiming Venture Partners, having invested in the latter's inaugural fund back in 2006.

Born out of the Stanford Virtual Human Interaction Lab, Strivr uses virtual reality to train athletes and employees and has now collected $51m in funding altogether.

Niantic has purchased University of Oxford’s augmented reality engine developer 6D.ai and will use the spinout’s technology for large-scale mapping for its games.

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

Retail brand reputation management business Soci has completed its series C round, having previously received series A capital from Stanford's Daper Fund.

Emory University's endowment fund was among the LPs that chipped in for the venture capital firm’s Continuum I fund, which has closed at $56.6m.

Soci, which counts Stanford's Daper Fund as an investor, has raised series C capital to build headcount and upgrade the AI underpinnings of its retail social media page management platform.

University of Arizona's tech transfer office generated 11 spinouts during the past financial year sealed 96 licence and option agreements.