Merck & Co will pay up to $773m to acquire biopharmaceutical developer Tilos Therapeutics, based on research at Harvard Medical School and Brigham & Women’s Hospital.

Alphabet, Telstra and RackSpace-backed endpoint cybersecurity technology producer CrowdStrike will float above a range it had already increased.

Merck & Co will pay up to $773m to acquire biopharmaceutical developer Tilos Therapeutics providing exits to co-founders Boehringer Ingelheim and Partners HealthCare.

Wave Financial, the financial management software developer backed by National Australia Bank, Royal Bank of Canada and Power Corporation, has been bought by H&R Block for $405m in cash.

Stanford spinout Tableau Software has agreed to a $15.7bn all-stock acquisition by Salesforce, six years after completing a $254m initial public offering on the New York Stock Exchange.

Eriez is now the largest shareholder in Cardiff University-founded power fault protection technology spinout FaultCurrent, having previously invested a seven-figure sum.

OATV-backed science and crafts content publisher Maker Media has suspended trading having previously raised $10m in equity and debt financing.

Apple is rumoured to be preparing to move in for self-driving vehicle software developer Drive.ai, opening a potential exit for ride hailing service Grab.

Cisco is set to buy the industrial-focused cybersecurity software provider in a deal of undisclosed size that will hand exits to Sopra Steria and Reply.

Alphabet subsidiary Google has agreed to acquire data analytics platform developer Looker, supplying an exit to Alphabet unit CapitalG.