The enterprise software producer paid $300m for a 10% stake in content management platform developer Automattic, five years after the company's last funding.

General Catalyst, Sequoia Capital and Andreessen Horowitz all chipped in as Alphabet, Visa and Amex-backed Stripe took its total funding past the $1bn mark.

Tencent has recommitted to providing $150m for language tutoring platform VIPKid, having reportedly withdrawn from a verbal agreement to invest last month.

Recruit and Just Eat-backed TouchBistro has collected another $119m thanks to investors including strategic partners Barclays and JP Morgan Chase.

Tencent was among the investors in a series B round that will help AllinMD expand its orthopaedic training and care access platform as well as its hospitals.

The Lundbeck and Upsher-Smith-backed drug development technology provider reportedly raised the funding at half the $2bn valuation of its last round in 2018.

High school esports platform developer PlayVS, which counts Adidas, Samsung Next and WndrCo as investors, secured series C cash to take its total funding to $96m.

Bruns Machine vehicle HDM has contributed to a $14.2m seed round for food resource forecasting platform Crisp, which has just emerged from stealth.

The early learning and childcare provider received $14.1m in a round co-led by corporate investor Ednovation.

The farming robotics developer increased its overall funding to more than $20m in a $14.5m round featuring Wilbur Ellis.