Cloud collaboration software provider Exostar was formed by BAE, Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Raytheon and Rolls-Royce before Merck & Co became a shareholder in 2014.

Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments has exited affiliate marketing service Skimlinks, which was purchased by Connexity for an undisclosed amount.

Cisco intends to purchase the network analytics software producer, which had raised more than $110m from investors including GV and Salesforce Ventures, for a reported $1bn.

Apple has bought Inductiv to integrate the latter's machine learning data cleanup expertise, based on Stanford, Wisconsin-Madison and Waterloo faculty innovations.

UPMC's ID Connect has absorbed Merck & Co's Ilúm Health Solutions to boost its client base and services offering.

Roche has purchased Stratos Group's DNA sequencing spinoff five years after its corporate venturing subsidiary contributed to a $30m series B round.

UAVC-backed antenna technology spinout FreeFall Aerospace has merged with one of its clients in order to focus its efforts on 5G communications.

Swisscom Ventures has exited invoice financing services provider Advanon in an acquisition of undisclosed size by peer Creditgate24.

Sogou has exited online medical information provider Baikemy in an acquisition of undisclosed size by ByteDance, two years after reportedly investing.

The corporate-backed health management service raised the cash from Perceptive Advisors and has used $30m to buy musculoskeletal-focused Physera.