Cybersecurity technology producer Salt Security nabbed $140m in a CapitalG-led round while healthcare unicorn Thirty Madison merged with Comcast-backed Nurx.

Tencent reinvested in the buy now, pay later sector, backing Alma in a round consisting of $131m in equity and $108m in debt financing.

Equinor Ventures re-upped its commitment to the battery material detection technology provider KoBold's series B round, which included BHP Ventures and Mitsubishi.

Harvard’s serial entrepreneur Timothy Springer has formally launched his latest venture with a $101m series A round backed by GV.

Data analytics platform developer Starburst raised $250m in a Salesforce-backed round valuing it above $3.3bn while SoftBank co-led a $140m round for small molecule drug developer Ventus.

Alphabet’s GV subsidiary was among the participants in the immunology drug development platform’s first publicly disclosed round.

GV, Sony Innovation Fund, Schneider Electric and Swisscom Ventures helped data capture technology producer Scandit raise money at a valuation topping $1bn.

Scandit has welcomed back shareholders including GV, Schneider Electric, Sony and Swisscom for a round that made the ETH Zurich spinout a unicorn.

The blockchain scaling technology developer’s token sale attracted SoftBank, Animoca Brands, Alameda Research, Bitfinex, Voodoo, Scopely, Unacademy and Celsius.

Digital bank operator Tonik Financial raised $131m in a Mizuho Bank-led round while e-commerce software provider Shopware secured $100m from PayPal and Carlyle.