Education

Insurance technology developer InsGeek, whose shareholders already include Tsinghua University-linked THG Ventures and TusStar, has added $25m in series C funding to its coffers.

Academic investors University of Cambridge, Jisc, Nesta and Grupo Tiradentes have all signed up to Emerge Education's edtech venture fund.

University Ventures portfolio company Galvanize, which provides software engineering and data science courses, has been bought by online education platform K12 after raising $96m in funding.

The former Strada Education managing director has been selected to oversee a newly-launched WGU venture fund targeting the education space.

Tsinghua University-backed Meten Education will merge with EdtechX to pursue market share with Chinese students and young professionals.

Operator Collective’s inaugural vehicle secured 100 LPs including two universities to back business-to-business enterprises aligned with its diversity ethos.

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

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.