France’s 13 regional tech transfer offices have now launched 370 spinouts since 2012, after adding another 112 new companies last year.

Amgen is among the seed investors for Stanford-licensed drug release technology developer Navan Technologies, which hopes its nanoinjection technique will enable more cell and gene therapies to be produced at scale.

Allied Minds will focus on funding existing companies after exiting the red to bank a $47.3m net profit for 2018.

NTT Docomo has invested $280m in Magic Leap through a strategic partnership, bringing the AR technology developer’s total funding to more than $2.6bn.

The sales management platform developer increased its overall funding to $145m with a LinkedIn-backed round that reportedly valued it at about $600m.

The RNAi therapeutics developer increased its series C funding to $47m following a second tranche led by corporate joint venture CR-CP Life Sciences Fund.

Kunlun Wanwei participated in a $44.5m round that will help the Tencent-backed company add additional subjects to its video-based education platform.

Siemens' Next47 subsidiary returned for Verkada's latest round, which valued the smart security system developer at $540m.

The MassMutual and Siemens-backed data protection software producer has received another $30m in a round that took its total funding to $173m.

Sports Tech Tokyo, a joint sportstech accelerator initiative between Dentsu and Scrum Ventures, has chosen the first group of startups since its launch in October last year.