Corporate-backed medical imaging technology producer Lunit is preparing to float in South Korea while cancer drug developer Pheast secured $76m from investors including Alexandria Venture Investments.

Massachusetts Mutual Life's venture capital arm has formed a fourth fund, which will concentrate on European and Asia-Pacific investments.

Yangtze River Pharmaceutical Group led Binhui Biopharm's $47m series B-plus round while Sigfox has been snapped up by UnaBiz for under $30m after raising over $300m.

Web3 security software producer Certik received $60m from investors including SoftBank Vision Fund 2 while corporate-backed automation technology provider Vicarious is being bought after raising over $250m.

Appliance management app developer Fresco's $20m round was co-led by Vorwerk and Instant Brands while NBCUniversal and Hearst helped media measurement software provider TVScientific raise $20m.

SK Hynix, Marvell and M12 helped data centre technology producer D-Matrix pull in $44m while health insurance provider SafetyWing raised $35m from investors including Digital Garage and CreditEase.

GCV Rising Stars Will Geiger and Brett Kadesh have taken up director positions at the CVC management services firm while Maddi Holman and Kathy Quigley have been appointed associates.

Accenture, Workday and Bank of America helped VR training technology developer Strivr expand its latest round to $65m while Consensys backed a $50m round for blockchain analytics provider Flipside Crypto.

The blockchain technology provider has attracted capital from several corporates for an accelerator tasked with boosting the Web3 ecosystem.

Citi Ventures, Salesforce Ventures and Telstra Ventures all invested in blockchain infrastructure provider Blockdaemon's series D round while GV backed cybersecurity software provider Obsidian's $90m series C.