Ghent University-founded texture streaming technology creator Graphine has been picked up by Unity Technologies, providing an exit to research institute Imec’s iStart accelerator.

The Alibaba, Foxconn, Legend Holdings and SK Group-backed image recognition software provider is reportedly weighing up New York and Hong Kong for an $800m initial public offering.

Edge cloud platform Fastly has hired Bank of America to oversee an IPO valuing it at $1bn which would provide exits for Swisscom, Deutsche Telekom and O’Reilly Media.

The Xiaomi-backed online brokerage floated above its range while its other corporate investor, International Brokers, bought more than $13m of shares.

The gift card services provider is set be acquired by Pine Labs in a $110m deal, after raising more than $21m from investors including Amazon and Sistema.

Innogy's corporate venturing unit has offloaded its stake in heat exchanger producer Airec to Alfa Laval and Sveper Heat Transfer.

Smith & Nephew and Johnson & Johnson have exited the shoulder implant developer in an all-cash acquisition by Stryker that could reach $220m.

Embattled commercialisation firm NetScientific is closing two medical diagnostics spinouts from UCLA after both failed to attract external funding.

36Kr Media is considering an initial public offering in the US that would be sized at about $100m, providing exits for Baidu Video and Focus Media Information Technology.

Alcon acquired the intraocular lens developer in a $285m deal that follows $106m in funding from investors including its parent company Novartis as well as Johnson & Johnson and Medtronic.