SAIC Motor’s Hengxu Capital helped allosteric drug developer Nutshell Therapeutics close a $40m round while cancer therapy developer Impact Therapeutics secured series D1 funding.

Aldi South, Rewe and Żabka joined investors including HP Tech Ventures, Qualcomm Ventures and Verizon Ventures in the autonomous retail technology developer's series B round.

Lunar expanded its series D round to $307m while RefleXion Medical raised $80m and Silent Eight raked in $40m.

Salesforce became Atlan's first corporate investor in a round valuing the data collaboration platform developer at $450m.

GV and Animoca Brands helped earphone developer Nothing secure $70m while Cialfo bumped its Seek-backed series B round up to $60m.

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

Checkr returned to help the employment data verification provider boost its total funding to over $77m.

Employee benefits management platform Twic rebranded to Forma while raising cash from investors including existing backer Stripe.

JPMorgan Chase and Salesforce Ventures took part in financial services provider Propel's $50m series B round while prayer app developer Glorify closed its second $40m round in three months.

Illumina Ventures was among the investors in the Baidu-backed diagnostics tool developer’s latest round, boosting its overall funding to $111m.