GM's autonomous driving spinoff, Cruise Automation, has received $1.15bn from investors including SoftBank Vision Fund and Honda as well as its parent company.

Sioux Technologies co-led SamanTree’s series A round, which will support marketing of the EPFL spinout’s subcellular resolution microscopy scanner for surgical cancer interventions.

TUM automated legal analysis spinout Rfrnz has secured backing from Unternehmertum-operated Initiative for Industrial Innovations, HTGF and unnamed additional investors.

TU Dresden-founded drug discovery platform operator Dynabind has advanced research from the lab of Yixin Zhang in the university’s B Cube Center for Molecular Bioengineering.

FAW Group will reportedly provide $100m for Byton for a $500m round likely to value the electric SUV developer at more than $2.5bn.

All Gett’s existing investors, including Volkswagen and Access Industries, have participated in a $120m extension that brought its latest round to $200m.

SoftBank tapped its Innovation Fund to invest about $20m in the card reader developer as part of a $100m round that valued it at up to $400m.

Existing backer Samsung Ventures contributed to a round that boosted the health maintenance platform developer's overall funding to more than $86m.

Ola's electric vehicle-focused spinoff has added an undisclosed amount to the $56m in series A funding the company received in March.

The funding, provided by investors including Qbic, will allow VUB and VIB spinout Confo Therapeutics to accelerate its drug discovery efforts and move towards clinical trials.