Leyaoyao raised a nine-digit yuan amount from investors including 37 Interactive Entertainment while Lockheed Martin and Booz Allen Hamilton contributed to AI developer Latent AI's series A round.

Strathclyde spinout Smarter Grid Solutions has been bought by Mitsubishi Electric for an undisclosed figure.

Evonik has bought one of its existing portfolio companies, Friedrich Schiller University Jena spinout JeNaCell, for an undisclosed sum.

Imec.xpand has returned for a $16m series B round that will allow Spectricity to accelerate the development of its sensors and imagers.

Alameda Research, Blockchain.com and Coinbase helped cryptocurrency exchange Pintu close a $35m round while small molecule drug developer Aardvark raised $29m.

University of Oxford’s genetic therapeutics spinout has secured the crossover funding eight months after a series A round also backed by OSI.

SevenVentures was among the participants as the refurbished electronics marketplace inreased its overall funding to more than $73m.

Scopely and Com2us are among the limited partners that helped boost the size of the game-focused fund to $67m.

The Angelini Lumira Biosciences Fund will invest in early-stage companies in Canada and the US.

Q&A with Antoine Delafargue, MD & CTO, Total Carbon Neutrality Ventures