Paragon Biosciences was part of Emalex Biosciences’ $250m series D while CMA CGM and AP Moller participated in an $80m round for Project44.

Databricks, Dell, HPE and Salesforce were all part of Alation’s $123m series E round while Alphabet took part in AMP Robotics’ $91m series C.

Sumitomo Corporation of Americas took part in ColdQuanta’s $100m series B round while Tesi provided $31.6m in series B funding for VoltAero.

Geely's subsidiary, GLy Capital Management of Hong Kong participated in Volocopter's $182m extended series E round, with Neom, the Saudi Arabia-based sovereign wealth fund leading the financing

CasInvent Pharma’s approach is aimed at three forms of cancer rather than just one, with leukaemia, lymphoma and solid tumours all in its sights.

Sumitomo participated in Zebra Labs’ $5m round while investors including FTX Ventures and Aptos provided $3m in pre-seed funding for Martian.

Octopus Energy Generation invested $127m in Be.EV while Centene Corporation and HopeLab took part in Hazel Health’s $51.1m series C1 round.

The Samsung-backed relationship therapy app developer has just raised pre-seed funding as part of what could be a vanguard of startups catering for couples.

Battery recycler Ascend Elements and Geely spinoff Farizon each raised $300m while Saudi Aramco launched a $1.5bn Sustainability Fund.

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