REV-backed Palantir has cut the size of its stock options, effectively valuing itself at $11bn just four months after reports suggested it would seek a $41bn valuation for its IPO in 2019.

In-game communication platform Vivox has been acquired by game development technology provider Unity after raising more than $16m from investors including Peacock Equity.

Samsung has agreed an acquisition of the smartphone camera technology provider, allowing SanDisk, Western Digital, CK Telecom, MediaTek and Foxconn to exit.

The newly merged digital construction platform has raised an undisclosed amount of funding from existing investors including corporates Solar and Inventures.

A leading company in the e-signature and digital transaction management space, San Francisco-based DocuSign went public in April last year, with a market capitalization of $4.4bn.

Having emerged from the Merck Serono Entrepreneur Partnership Program (EPP) in 2015, Prexton Therapeutics raised a total $41m of funding before it was acquired by pharmaceutical firm Lundbeck for an estimated $1.1bn last year.

Digital Garage has exited the database technology developer, which had raised about $11m, in an acquisition of undisclosed size by Microsoft.

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Maoyan is floating in Hong Kong at the bottom of its range, in an offering that will provide exits to Enlight, Tencent and Meituan Dianping.

Naspers subsidiary OLX has fully acquired classified listings platform Avito, six years after Naspers paid $50m for a minority stake and four after it took a majority share.