Liberty Mutual, MS&AD Ventures and QBE Ventures all contributed to a series C round taking the climate risk analytics provider's total funding to at least $86m.

Leverage Health Solution, Cigna Ventures and Leaps by Bayer helped the skin condition treatment developer hike its total funding to approximately $67m.

Alexandria Venture Investments has supported the life science technology developer in its $88.9m series C round which has pushed total funding past $142m.

Osage University Partners has helped the UT Southwestern precision medicine spinout close a round which will be used to advance and expand its pipeline of respiratory disease drug candidates.

Automated driving software developer Jimu Intelligent raised over $31m from investors including UMC Capital and Avic Pingshan while Lockheed Martin took part in gyroscope technology developer Anello's $28m round.

SoftBank, Com2Us and CAA's Connect Ventures backed the digital collectibles platform developer in a series A round which will be used to accelerate the growth of its team.

Pfizer and Sanofi helped the precision medicine developer close a series B round which will be used to advance and expand its pipeline of respiratory disease drug candidates.

Red Apple Group is exiting the smart trolley provider, which is being taken over by Instacart in a cash-and-stock deal.

Lauren Illovsky has taken up a talent partner role at Alphabet’s CapitalG subsidiary following nearly two years in the same position at sister fund Gradient Ventures.

Stanford-backed energy management platform operator AutoGrid secured its latest funding from a host of corporates led by Schneider Electric.