Affirm spinoff Resolve raised $60m from investors including its parent company, while sales and marketing software provider Qualified secured $51m in a Salesforce-backed round.

GV has returned to back the indoor farming operator’s series C round at a $2.3bn valuation, helping to take its total funding to over $470m.

Q&A with James Field, service design lead, Ferguson Ventures

Exor-backed card issuing technology provider Lithic raised $43m while Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance is providing $36m to lead Upstream Security's series C round.

Imec's venture capital arm has received $36.7m in capital from the Flemish government for its sophomore fund.

Crop monitoring technology developer Prospera is to be acquired by Valmont Industries in a $300m deal, giving exits to Tekfen Ventures, Cisco Investments and Qualcomm Ventures.

BioTheryX, Immuta and Pitch are among the companies that have raised fresh capital from corporates such as Intel Capital, Slack Fund, Citi Ventures and Dell Technologies Capital.

Axa Venture Partners has helped put $60m into Virtuo, while Super collected $50m and Salto picked up $42m.

The battery optimisation software spinout of TUM has received the new funding after a UVC Partners-backed series A round closed approximately a year ago.

SoftBank has led the series E round, doubling MIT Media Labs spinout Formlabs’ valuation to $2bn in the process.