The identity verification platform developer was valued at $1.3bn in a round featuring Synchrony Financial, Citi Ventures and Wells Fargo Strategic Capital.

Dentsu, Globis, Gree, Link and Motivation, Rakuten, Salesforce and Yahoo Japan are set to exit the recruitment services group in an IPO in Tokyo.

Educational data software developer Kidaptive had raised more than $30m from investors including Prana Studios and Woongjin ThinkBig.

SoftBank Vision Fund 2 and Tencent have co-led the intellectual property management platform’s series E round, which reportedly valued it at over $1bn.

Fidelity Management & Research has joined new and returning investors to back the website creation platform developer’s latest round at a $10bn valuation.

Alibaba led a $30.8m round that helped the customer service software developer close its third round in the space of less than a year.

The GMO, Mitsui Sumitomo and Samsung-backed furniture rental platform developer has added $1.4m to its latest round to take its total funding to $35m.

Cloud cybersecurity software provider CipherCloud had raised more than $80m pre-acquisition from backers such as Transamerica and Deutsche Telekom.

Stripe has returned to reinvest in the customer support software developer through a $16.6m round, having previously led its seed funding.

The Future Value Fund I will invest in pre-seed companies, including spinouts from Rev1's long-time partner Ohio State University.