Vertera Spine, a spinal implant developer base on Duke and Georgia Tech research, has been picked up shortly after receiving regulatory approval for two products.

Innoetics has been acquired by Samsung in the largest exit for a Greek spinout in decades

The database software supplier, which has raised more than $310m from investors including Salesforce, Intel, EMC, Dell and Red Hat, has filed to go public.

The internet company has filed for a $1bn initial public offering in the US that will give exits to Tencent, JG Summit Holdings and Uni-President Enterprises.

Ultrasound simulator developer Medaphor will pay up to $4.9m in shares to acquire University of Oxford spinout Intelligent Ultrasound.

SoftBank bought $500m of shares as online insurance platform ZhongAn priced the largest ever fintech IPO in Hong Kong, giving exits to Ping An, Tencent and Ant Financial.

Corporate-backed online ticketing service Weiying is set to merge several of its assets with peer Maoyan, which is majority owned by Enlight Media.

The Expedia-backed Latin American tourism booking platform floated in the US at the top of its range, and could close the initial public offering at up to $382m.

Seraphim Capital's space-focused VC fund has achieved a $95m close with contributions from SES, Airbus and Telespazio.

The commercialisation firm has secured support for a takeover from shareholders who hold 96.5% between them in its peer Touchstone Innovations.