Figure Eight, previously known as CrowdFlower, is set to be acquired by Appen for a total of up to $300m, providing exits to corporates Salesforce and Microsoft.

GV Cisco Investments and NTT subsidiary Dimension Data are all set to exit wifi technology provider Mist Systems, which has raised $88m in funding.

Nightstar Therapeutics, based on Oxford research, stands to receive $800m from Biogen in an acquisition deal that comes a year and a half after completing a $75m IPO.

Bigo, a social video livestreaming platform, has been acquired by its existing shareholder YY for more than $1.45bn in a deal that also provided exits for Ping An and Bertelsmann.

Sarepta Therapeutics exercised its option to acquire Nationwide Children’s gene therapy spinout Myonexus Therapeutics after paying at least $60m for the right in May 2018.

Statkraft Ventures is set to exit distributed energy software provider Limejump in an acquisition by Shell that will follow some $10m of funding for the company.

A Reliance Industries subsidiary has agreed to buy the Qualcomm-backed multilingual technology developer in a cash deal worth $28.6m.

The two companies initially entered discussions about a $2bn to $2.5bn merger in July last year, but the transaction is now expected to reach $3bn and consist of cash and shares.

USA Loans looks to have found an exit at student portfolio publishing platform Portfolium, which has been bought by education software provider Instructure.

Zinc's occupational communication platform, geared towards deskless workers in service industries, has been picked up by ServiceMax after receiving equity from CVC subsidiaries of GE and Hearst.