Parkwalk Advisors has sold on most of its stake in Oxford-founded drone designer Animal Dynamics, securing a 6.9 times return.

Kasper Sage, a former BMW i Ventures principal featured on this year's GCV Rising Stars roster, was named partner at the beginning of this year.

The Africa-focused e-commerce platform, backed by MTN, Rocket Internet, Millicom, Orange, Axa and Pernod Ricard, has filed for a $100m initial public offering in the US.

Credit Suisse-backed SPF Investment Management has contributed to a $75m series B round for Pagantis, the online lender previously known as Digital Origin.

Founding investor Lundbeckfonden Emerge returned to co-lead a series A round for the gene editing drug developer with Life Science Partners.

Natiowide has taken a minority stake in financial services portal developer 10x Future Technologies through a $16.9m series B investment.

JLL Spark's $100m Global Venture Fund has appointed Concrete VC to source real estate technology investment opportunities in the EMEA region.

The Cambridge spinout plans to build out the business for its automated customer support platform after collecting $12m in series A funding.

Gyroscope Therapeutics recently commenced phase 1/2 clinical trials on a retinal gene therapy for dry age-related macular degeneration.

Anaveon emerged out of University of Zurich in late 2017 with the support of Novartis-backed UZH Life Sciences Fund and the corporate has now also invested directly.