CU Boulder spinout ALD NanoSolutions has merged with its peer Forge Nano, with new merged company securing $20m from a range of corporates.

Patrizia has paid an undisclosed amount to buy the real estate investment platform, whose investors included Aareal Bank and Berlin Hyp.

Wipro Ventures is set to exit email security software provider Emailage in an acquisition by LexisNexis Risk Solutions, which is paying a reported $480m.

Eight months after Grace Beauty-backed Harry’s agreed to an acquisition by Edgewell for $1.37bn, the US antitrust agency has sued to block the deal on competition grounds.

University Ventures portfolio company Galvanize, which provides software engineering and data science courses, has been bought by online education platform K12 after raising $96m in funding.

LG and ST Electronics are set to exit indoor positioning technology producer Devawave in an acquisition by Qorvo reportedly sized at $400m.

Crédit Agricole is set to acquire a majority stake in portfolio company Linxo as fellow corporates Maif and Crédit Mutuel Arkéa exit.

RELX, Salesforce, Lixil and Liberty Interactive-backed text analysis software business Quid is joining forces with social media analysis provider NetBase.

Monoqi, the furniture e-commerce platform formerly backed by Advance Publications, has been bought by Decovry for an undisclosed sum.

Big Switch Networks, based on Stanford research, had raised more than $120m from investors including Dell Technologies Capital, Intel Capital and Accton.