Barclays Bank has re-upped its commitment to the invoice finance lender in an equity and debt round two years after co-leading its series B with Santander InnoVentures.

Blockchain infrastructure platform Blockdaemon was valued at $1.26bn in a series B round led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2.

Stripe has joined Tiger Global to invest in the open banking technology developer, which also counts Tencent and Mouro Capital as shareholders.

Daiichi Life helped sales technology provider BellFace take its total funding above $80m while ZKTube Labs and Boom Entertainment each raised $15m.

Payment technology provider Airwallex was valued at $4bn in its series E round, following earlier funding from Salesforce, ANZ Bank, Tencent and Mastercard.

The Mastercard-backed payment software provider has raised over $1.2bn pre-IPO and has opted to float on the Nasdaq Global Select Market.

Investec has returned to provide the first tranche of the PayPal and Avios-backed banking platform developer’s series C round, taking its total funding to $162m.

The investors-focused digital services provider is set to raise the cash from Kotak Mahindra Bank at a valuation of over $420m.

Ideo contributed to female-focused debit card provider Sequin's $5m seed round while Nikon has exited motion data software developer Wrnch.

Every day, Global University Venturing rounds up the smaller investments from across the university innovation ecosystem in its deal net.