As China-based ride-hailing service Didi Chuxing's acqures a majority of Brazil-based peer 99, below is a version of a speech presented in a keynote at the Corporate Venture in Brasil conference in October 2017.

Western Digital and Google-backed data storage platform Avere Systems has agreed to be acquired by Microsoft, having raised $97m in funding.

The on-demand ride provider reportedly now owns a 90% share of its Brazilian counterpart, whose investors also included Qualcomm and SoftBank.

Restorbio, an aging-related disease drug developer co-founded by PureTech Health, also counts Novartis as a shareholder.

GV and Celgene-backed Armo BioSciences has filed to raise up to $86.3m in an offering that will fund clinical tests for its lead immuno-oncology candidate.

Corporate venturing unit Bloomberg Beta has exited app testing platform developer BuddyBuild through an acquisition of undisclosed size by Apple.

The Novo and Merck-backed pruritus therapy developer has filed to raise up to $97.8m, having already secured almost $110m in VC funding.

Biogen-backed Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) treatment developer Solid Biosciences has filed to raise up to $100m.

Juniper Networks has announced its intent to acquire malware detection platform Cyphort, which has raised $53m from investors including Dell.

SoftBank itself will come out with a 15% stake in Uber as part of a primary and secondary deal that looks set to top $8bn.