Volkswagen has co-led a $600m round for Northvolt together with Baillie Gifford and Goldman Sachs, while Scania also returned.

Sophia Genetics has added Hitachi to its list of shareholders following a $110m series F round that also included returning backer Swisscom.

The insurer has put $54m into a corporate venturing arm called SwissHealth Ventures to target digital health startups.

Three Pulsalys businesses in healthcare and consumer feature in the first intake, run in partnership with local incubator Les Premières Aura.

DMG Ventures has contributed to a $308m funding round that increased Cazoo’s overall funding to some $558m and its valuation to more than $2.5bn.

Caloga-backed Sendinblue has added $160m to its coffers thanks to investors including Bpifrance and BlackRock.

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

The Mastercard and NatWest-backed banking software provider pushed its total funding past $90m with an investment by National Australia Bank.

Bell Food Group and M Ventures have contributed to an initial $55m series B tranche for the cultured meat developer spun out of Maastricht University.

Bell Food Group and M Ventures have contributed to an initial $55m series B tranche for the cultured meat developer spun out of Maastricht University.