The corporate owned a 15% stake in immunotherapy developer Lyell, which recently raised $493m, with a fair value of $203m as of the end of 2019.

The indoor farm operator, which has already raised $400m, is in talks with existing investor SoftBank Vision Fund for a round likely to value it at up to $1bn.

Amid a nearly global lockdown and much apprehension around the Covid-19 pandemic, we reported two interesting deals in the mobility space last month.

The big data technology provider increased its overall funding to $786m in a Tencent-led round that also featured fellow corporate Kuaishou.

Roche Venture Fund returned to help SutroVax, a developer of vaccines for a range of deadly infectious diseases, push its overall funding past $280m.

Illumina was among the returning investors for the round that will help Columbia spinout Kallyope prepare a weight loss treatment for clinical trials.

Illumina Ventures was among the returning investors for the round that will help Kallyope prepare a weight loss treatment for clinical trials.

Naspers subsidiary OLX Group led a $120m round for the e-commerce app developers, which have agreed to merge, and will own 40% of the combined entity.

Temasek led a funding round that expanded the UC-RNT Fund-backed health and wellness services platform's overall financing to approximately $390m.

The ride hailing service is reportedly near to raising $300m in a round led by existing backer SoftBank that will follow $18.3bn in earlier financing.