LinkedIn's data streaming spinoff, Confluent, is floating above its range in an offering effectively doubling the valuation of its last funding round to over $9bn.

Eli Lilly, Johnson & Johnson and Pfizer helped drug developer TRexBio close its $59m series A round while Slack backed human resources software provider Oyster at a $475m valuation.

HubSpot and Salesforce both participated in a series D round which boosted the enterprise software marketplace's overall funding to $257m.

Bloomberg Beta invested in a round which will fund Primer's NLP product development for the government and commercial sectors.

NTT Docomo is set to exit the database technology provider in a flotation on the Nasdaq Global Select Market that will follow some $250m of venture funding.

Samsung, Delphi and Sensata-backed lidar technology developer will get a New York Stock Exchange listing through the deal, conducted at a $1.4bn valuation.

Maersk Growth and Raed Ventures co-led a $42m round for shipping platform developer Trella while GV exited deep learning software provider Determined AI.

USAA has made an anchor commitment to the military graduate investment network’s first fund, which is targeting $50m for its final close.

Slack Fund and Citi Ventures have reinvested in the communications software developer through a round that lifted its overall funding to $175m.

The application management platform developer boosted its overall funding to $86m in a round led by Rakuten Capital.