Stripe helped cross-border payment processor Wave secure unicorn status in a series A round led by Sequoia Heritage at a $1.7bn valuation.

Channel Talk, Segari and Borneo are all among the companies that have raised corporate venture capital, while Tepco celebrated an exit with the acquisition of Me:New.

Ginger supplier Agricorp International has attracted $17.5m of series A funding from backers including AFEX and Vami Farms.

Notre Dame’s Pit Road Fund has re-invested in the enterprise blockchain deployment platform and was joined by Stanford Law School Venture Fund.

Versanis Bio secured $70 to commercialise a treatment licensed from Novartis, while Salesforce, Intel, Orange, Nike and Alphabet all celebrated exits.

Every day, Global University Venturing rounds up the smaller investments from across the university innovation ecosystem in its deal net.

Ventura Capital has led the round for the Imperial College London-founded rapid covid-19 test kit maker, which will use the funding to expand internationally.

The Ethereum scaling technology developer raised two rounds this year, having spun out of Princeton in 2018.

The Ethereum scaling technology developer raised two rounds this year as it prepares to move its platform out of beta.

Genomics care provider Genome Medical closed a $60m round backed by several corporates while brokerage software producer Alpaca secured $50m.