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QualySense is testing its QSorter Explorer with multinational companies.
Steve Garnett, Europe Middle East and Africa chairman of Salesforce, said: "Salesforce is excited to join forces with leading European venture capital firms to launch the Innovation Challenge and reward Europe's top entrepreneurs and enable them to accelerate their innovation and time to market."
The company priced 12.5 million American depository shares at $17 each, after having filed to sell 12 million shares at between $16 and $18 each.
Alongside SAEV in backing AnTech is Calculus Capital, a private equity firm.
OrbiMed and Novo are providing $35m of debt, with SKr95m ($15m) of equity from OrbiMed and a number of institutional investors.
BB Biotech Ventures, a fund advised by Swiss investment bank Bellevue Group, and Novartis Venture Fund led the C round.
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