Wipro and Intel backed customer experience platform developer Lilt's $55m series C while Pfizer is buying corporate-backed respiratory virus therapeutic developer ReViral for up to $525m.

SoftBank Vision Fund 2 led the healthcare management software provider’s series D round, taking its overall funding to about $213m and its valuation to a reported $1.4bn.

Crypto.com, Huobi and BitMart invested in cryptocurrency scaling technology developer Boba Network at a $1.5bn valuation while natural fibre composite provider Bcomp netted $34.9m in a BMW-led round.

Smiths Medical and WuXi AppTec are exiting infusion pump developer Ivenix in an acquisition that could reach $240m, while AI software developer Syntiant raised $55m from investors including Renesas.

Alphabet, Goodyear, Liberty Global and Deutsche Telekom all took part in a round hiking the crypto IoT network developer's valuation to $1.2bn

Alibaba helped AR glasses provider Nreal take its funding to $200m in the past year while SGE led a $60m series D round for online coder recruitment service HackerRank.

SoftBank Vision Fund 2 has led the API marketplace’s latest round at a unicorn valuation, with returning investor M12 also taking part.

Citi, SVB, State Street and JP Morgan were among the investors that helped the financial software provider boost its valuation to $1.6bn.

The expense management platform developer more than doubled its valuation to $8.1bn in a Stripe-backed round consisting of $200m in equity funding and $550m in debt financing.

SoftBank Vision Fund 2 led the e-commerce automation software developer’s latest round, helping it reach unicorn status and lift its total funding to almost $200m.