The Rakuten-backed social media and e-commerce company, valued at more than $12bn, will select underwriters next month and could go public as soon as April.

Tencent reportedly owns more than 30% of online brokerage Futu Securities, which has confidentially filed to go public, targeting a $2.5bn valuation.

The Qualcomm-backed AR and computer vision technology developer is seeking a buyer after a shareholder vetoed a new fundraise.

StartX-backed Lighthouse AI failed to garner enough commercial interest in its interactive household camera despite raising $17m in funding.

Tokyo Electron is set to exit optical transceiver producer Luxtera after Cisco has confirmed it intends to pay $660m to buy the company.

GV has exited POC-focused health and beauty product manufacturer Walker and Company in an acquisition of undisclosed size by Procter & Gamble.

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ICL vascular implant spinout Veryan Medical has been bought by medical device firm Otsuka after raising $56m from investors including IP Group.

HomeToGo has acquired the troubled Recruit-backed holiday home rental platform Tripping for an undisclosed amount of money. The company is part of the larger travel and accommodation space, which has seen growth of corporate-backed deals in recent years.  

Stablecoin developer Basis is shutting down after facing regulatory issues and will return most of the $133m it raised from investors including GV in April.