Intelligent road technology developer Cavnue raised the cash in a series A round co-led by Ford Motor Company while two other strategic partners, Globalvia and Landstar, also invested.

Salesforce Ventures, an investor in the sales generation software developer since seed stage, returned for a round hiking its overall funding to $158m.

GAC has returned to lead the Tencent and Guangzhou Public Transport-backed automated taxi developer’s latest round, which included WeRide and Pony.ai.

GS Group contributed to a series B round that pushed messenger RNA therapeutics and vaccine developer RVAC Medicines' overall funding to $140m.

HPE, Nvidia, GlobalFoundries, Intel Capital, Applied Ventures and Lockheed Martin Ventures helped push the semiconductor technology provider's total funding past $190m.

CVS Health joined returning backers that could include SoftBank Vision Fund 2, MassMutual Ventures, Jianke and Aviva in a round valuing the digital care service at $1.3bn.

Migdal and Menora Mivtachim helped supply the renewable energy infrastructure developer with fresh funding which will help expand its operations in the UK and Finland.

ServiceNow, Capital One Ventures, Citi Ventures, Splunk Ventures and GV all contributed to the software deployment technology provider's latest round, valuing it at $3.7bn.

BMW i Ventures and Telekom Innovation Pool both invested in a series A round for the IoT system provider, which had developed dedicated technology products with their parent companies.

BYD, CATL and PetroChina’s Kunlun Capital vehicle were among the investors in a round valuing the lithium-ion battery material producer at $1.5bn.