$20m-$39.9m

Pixie Dust Technologies, which promotes university-derived technologies from Japan, has received $34.7m in a round that included KDDI, Kansai Electric Power, NEC, Toppan, Dai-ichi Life and Dentsu.

CIC has returned to supply AI forecasting platform Prowler.io with series B capital and help take the company's overall funding to $39m.

Cambridge's cancer drug spinout Storm Therapeutics convinced its existing investors to join new participant Seroba Life Sciences for a second extension that brought its series A total to $38.2m.

CU Boulder battery tech spinout Solid Power and Ford will collaborate on delivering a solid-state cell for electric vehicles using the spinout's production facility.

Osage University Partners, Gradient Ventures and Rakuten Ventures featured in machine learning software developer Algorithmia's latest round, which brought its total to $37.9m.

UCLA spinout Neural Analytics increased its total funding to $66m as it prepares for further testing of its robotically-assisted brain health monitoring platform.

Tel Aviv University announces $20m commercialisation fund with Tata Industries.

Invesco Perpetual, the fund manager, and Imperial Innovations, the London Stock Exchange-listed spin-off from Imperial College London, are joined by The Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas and the Wellcome Trust supporting Cell Medica's growth.

Revolymer, which makes chewing gum that is easier to remove from streets and pavements, was backed by the Setsquared Partnership, a joint venture capital initiative between Bath, Bristol, Exeter, Southampton and Surrey.