Parkwalk Advisors has injected an additional $2.6m into GeoSpock, two months after the Cambridge spinout secured $12.8m in a round co-led by the fund manager.

Chicago’s endowment participated in the series A, following a $1.1m seed round last year that included prize money from the Chicago-run New Venture Challenge.

HTGF has returned to back Freiburg's single cell-dispensing spinout Cytena after previously featuring in the company’s $1.3m round in 2015.

Tencent has returned to lead a $297m series D round for big data technology producer MiningLamp, having co-led its $159m series C a year ago.

Building on work at MIT’s Koch Institute of Integrative Cancer Research, Elicio hopes to begin patient studies in 2020 for pancreatic, colorectal, head and neck cancers.

Bridgepoint could take a majority stake in Kyriba in a deal that would allow HSBC, Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Bred Banque Populaire, Mizuho Bank and American Express to exit.

The mattress provider, which is reportedly preparing to go public, has secured $100m in funding from investors including existing backer Target.

Paytm owner One97 Communications is reportedly seeking between $1bn and $2bn in a SoftBank Vision Fund and Ant Financial-backed round, at a valuation of up to $18bn.

Founded by a former research engineer from regional TTO Satt AxLR, genetic analysis platform company SeqOne has become one of the first businesses to be backed by the PSL Innovation Fund.

Johnson & Johnson Innovation – JJDC, IP Group and CIC have returned for a $52.2m series B round for Inivata, a spinout of Cancer Research UK and University of Cambridge.