Trifacta, co-founded by Stanford and UC Berkeley researchers, has attracted nearly a dozen investors for a round that brought its total funding to $224m.

SmartNews, co-founded by University of Tokyo researcher Ken Suzuki, is valued at $1.1bn following a $28m series E round led by Japan Post Capital.

Based on discoveries from MIT scientists, Agrivida has now raised more than $67m in total and will soon launch its flagship plant-based enzyme product.

FlixMobility has raised a reported $561m in series F funding, adding to earlier capital provided by investors including TUM-linked UVC Partners and carmaker Daimler.

ETH Zurich spinout GetYourGuide secured $484m in a round led by SoftBank Vision Fund that took its total funding past $650m.

Seek Group led a series E round that valued Coursera at more than $1bn, boosting the Stanford-founded online education provider’s total funding to more than $313m.

Aptiv and CAC Holdings joined corporate venturing units Trend Forward Capital and Motley Fool Ventures in a $26m round that almost doubled the MIT spinout's funding.

Battery materials developer Sila Nanotechnologies, co-founded by Georgia Tech professor Gleb Yushin, is preparing for commercialisation, after Daimler led a series E round.

Nuvaira, based on research by a then-professor at Washington University School of Medicine, has closed a $79m funding round led by US Venture Partners.

The genomic testing platform developer has now raised some $140m, eight years after being co-founded in EPFL's Innovation Park by researchers from EMBL, Stanford and Geneva University.