UCL spinout Promethera Biosciences has increased its series D round to $44.4m with a $33.1m Mitsui and Medipal-backed extension, adding to Itochu’s initial investment earlier this year.

The space debris removal company has raised another $30m for its series D round from investors including UTokyo Innovation Platform and has now received $132m in total.

Ahren Innovation Capital has been confirmed as an investor in a round that brought University of Bristol-linked machine intelligence technology developer Graphcore’s total to $310m.

Goldwind, Legal & General and Equinor have all taken part in a series D that achieved a $41m first close and boosted the Oxford spinout’s total equity and debt to more than $118m.

Microsoft, Bridgestone and Qualcomm all contributed to a series D round for MIT spinout ClearMotion, which emerged from stealth earlier last year with $130m in funding.

UCL spinout Promethera Biosciences has received $11.3m in series D funding from Itochu and $16.6m in a convertible debt round backed by Sosei.

Bristol-linked Graphcore has raised cash from Microsoft, Samsung, BMW i Ventures, Robert Bosch Venture Capital and Dell Technologies Capital at a valuation of $1.7bn.

AutoGrid, the distributed energy management platform backed by Stanford, will use the capital from the Eon, CLP, Innogy, Total, Ørsted and Tenaska-backed round to boost hiring.

Existing backers AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson returned for a round that will advance PhaseBio's orphan disease drug pipeline, based on research from Duke University.

Baxter Ventures has participated in a series D round for Outset Medical, a spinout of Oregon State University.