Existing investors Pfizer Ventures and Merck GHI helped the precision cancer test developer take its total funding past the $130m mark.

Samsung-backed robotics software developer Covariant hiked its overall funding to $147m in a round led by returning investor Index Ventures.

Orange Ventures returned in a round that boosted the digital payment technology producer's overall funding to $106m.

SoftBank-backed barbershop booking service Squire raised $60m at a $750m valuation while card issuing platform developer Lithic was valued at $800m in a round featuring Exor.

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

University of Toronto-linked Deep Genomics has picked up $180m in its series C round led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2.

Rakuten and SBI have returned to chip into the precision immunotherapy developer’s series D round, which was led by General Catalyst.

Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group-backed lending marketplace operator Figure has collected $200m in series D financing from investors including Blockchain.com.

SoftBank and Alexandria Real Estate Equities helped the Bloomberg-backed genetic medicine developer raise series C funding to further expand its pipeline of RNA therapies.

The content management platform developer more than trebled its valuation to over $3bn in a round featuring Tidemark.