Vice Media is in negotiations to buy Refinery29, which has raised about $125m in equity funding from investors including WarnerMedia, WPP and Scripps Networks Interactive.

WarnerMedia, Bertelsmann and SpotX are set to exit the video distribution technology producer, which has agreed to be acquired by Frankly.

Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments is set to exit geek-focused digital media platform Inverse in an acquisition of undisclosed size by Bustle.

Dental care network Dentolo has been picked up by insurance firm Zurich roughly two years after raising $3.5m from investors including Axel Springer Plug and Play Accelerator.

VMware is set to buy the artificial intelligence-focused infrastructure software provider in a deal of undisclosed size that will see Samsung exit.

Aspen has agreed to buy the Munich RE-backed IoT data analytics provider in a deal worth $78.2m, weeks after acquiring Sabisu's digital workspace platform.

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

8x8 has acquired cloud-based communications technology provider Wavecell in a $125m cash and stock deal, allowing Telkom Indonesia's MDI Ventures to exit.

Visa has acquired the cloud-based payment processing software provider Payworks, one of its portfolio companies, also handing an exit to Commerzbank.

Engie, SunPower, Siemens and GE-backed Tendril Networks has joined forces with Simple Energy to create a utility software provider called Uplight.