The soil analytics provider took its total funding to $19m in a round featuring agricultural investment, data and media platform AgFunder.

Ucommune, a China-based workspace provider backed by corporates including Prosperity Holdings, Junfa Group and Dahong Group, has now raised $715m altogether.

LeanTaas, which counts Sedgwick Claims Management Services as an investor, closed a series C round led by Insight Venture Partners that will fund the growth of its platform.

Online higher education platform Unicaf has raised series B funding from a consortium also including Goldman Sachs, EdX and CDC Group as it gears up to target more students.

The cybersecurity commercialisation firm hopes to raise $2.9m through an Aim placement and will use the funding for product development, working capital, sales and marketing.

Kebotix has emerged from Harvard University with backing from investors including Baidu to commercialise an automated approach to discovering new materials and molecules.

Enterprise automation software provider UiPath has added $40m to a round co-led by existing investor CapitalG that values it at $3bn.

Nikola Corporation has doubled the size of a Nel-backed round to $210m, valuing it at $1.3bn post-money as it gears up to launch its hydrogen-powered semi-truck.

Strategic partner Eli Lilly invested $15m while Pfizer, Ping An Ventures and Taiho Ventures also contributed to the immunotherapy developer's series B round.

Pfizer Ventures and 6 Dimensions Capital joined Merck & Co, Sanofi, Eli Lilly and Amgen in Kymera's series B round, taking the protein degradation drug developer's total funding to more than $95m.