Q&A with Veronica Gabriele, associate, Munich Re Ventures

Pulse Medical and BioMap are among the companies that raised nine-figure rounds, while Amwell bought two corporate-backed companies at once.

Abico Group, Gree, Mixi and Otto Group are all among the LPs that helped the venture firm close its fourth fund, which is set to back about 40 Asia-based internet, e-commerce and fintech startups.

Corporate-backed teleconferencing system provider Baijiayun raised cash at a $465m valuation while financial software provider Prime Trust closed a $64m round featuring Nationwide and Samsung Next.

SoftBank Vision Fund has returned to back the e-learning portal in a round which valued it at $3.44bn and lifted its overall funding to about $860m.

SoftBank-backed barbershop booking service Squire raised $60m at a $750m valuation while card issuing platform developer Lithic was valued at $800m in a round featuring Exor.

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

Holiday rental property marketplace Vacasa will get a Nasdaq listing from the deal, which follows $527m in funding from investors including Assurant.

SoftBank Vision Fund 2 has led a round that took the Salesforce Ventures-backed online classroom tool provider's overall funding to more than $160m.

CapitalG sold $36.3m of shares in an upsized offering for the language learning app developer, which saw its shares rise 36% on their first day.