Exor-backed card issuing technology provider Lithic raised $43m while Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance is providing $36m to lead Upstream Security's series C round.

BioTheryX, Immuta and Pitch are among the companies that have raised fresh capital from corporates such as Intel Capital, Slack Fund, Citi Ventures and Dell Technologies Capital.

Axa Venture Partners has helped put $60m into Virtuo, while Super collected $50m and Salto picked up $42m.

Next47, CreditEase, SBI Group and Morgan Stanley are all among the backers of Pipe’s latest round, which was oversubscribed by $100m and valued the business at $2bn.

LinkedIn has made a strategic investment in the developer of software tools for the media industry.

The Mouro Capital-backed business lender has secured a mix of debt and equity investment in a round led by Lakestar.

Checkout.com-backed Thunes has added $60m to its coffers, while Desktop Metal purchased Adaptive3D less than a year after Arkema invested.

Electric vertical aircraft developer Beta Technologies has attracted investors including Amazon, which invested through its Climate Pledge Fund.

Eat Just has established a new cultured meat subsidiary Good Meat with $170m in funding supplied by UBS O’Connor, Graphene Ventures, K3 Ventures and others.

Nexa3D has confirmed $55m in funding across several rounds, while BukuKas has added $50m to its coffers and both Label Insights and Mya Systems have been acquired.