Susquehanna Growth Equity has led a $62m series B round for speech-to-text software provider Speechmatics, while Fidelity’s Eight Roads unit led digital asset data aggregator Kaiko's $53m series B.

Prosus helped B2B e-commerce platform ShopUp lift its series B round to $174m while SPIL Ventures co-led a $70m series C for trucking optimisation platform Deliveree.

SoftBank led contract management platform developer LegalForce's $102m series D round while several corporates exited logistics service provider GogoX in an $85m IPO.

IP Group has established Kiko Ventures to build out its existing $215m cleantech portfolio and will invest $245m over the next five years.

Illumina and Celgene could exit genome researcher Human Longevity in a reverse merger while Openly raised $75m from investors including Advance Venture Partners and Gradient Ventures.

Gene-sequencing technology producer Axbio raised nearly $100m in a round co-led by AstraZeneca-CICC Investment Fund while Eli Lilly helped Forbion Growth Opportunities Fund II to a $504m first close.

Chalmers spinout Elypta is working on a metabolism-based liquid biopsy for early cancer detection that it hopes will catch any type of the disease.

The carmaker is exploring a "car for life" that gets upgraded as your needs change and other ideas at a new innovation centre it has set up at Warwick University.

Cancer biopsy developer Elypta raised $21m in a round led by Bonnier Ventures while Evli Bank led cryptocurrency arbitrage platform Mosdex's $20m series A.

Google and Times Group helped boost ShareChat’s latest round to $520m while Animoca Brands has acquired a majority stake in portfolio company TinyTap for $38.9m.