Salesforce and Slack were among a consortium of new and existing backers for Hopin’s series D round, which comes only five months after a $400m series C.

John Deere is paying $250m to buy the AgFunder-backed self-driving tractor system developer.

The sales training software developer has now raised $281m in total, with SoftBank and Qualcomm returning for its series E round.

The China Union-backed drug contract manufacturer has raised the funding approximately a year and a half after a $60m series A.

Best Buy also plans to work together with Brown Venture Group to develop a stronger community of diverse suppliers and launch an entrepreneurial partnership programme.

The engineering technology provider’s newly formed Trimble Ventures unit will target startups and scale-ups working on technologies strategic to its existing industrial businesses.

GV, Dell Technologies Capital and Salesforce Ventures have all returned to back the digital experience tracking service’s latest round, which valued it at $1.8bn.

Bayer is set to acquire the precision therapeutics developer backed by Alexandria Venture Investments, Celgene and SoftBank, with another $500m in milestone payments up for grabs.

Osage University Partners has backed the immunotherapy developer in a series B round, which took its overall funding to over $335m.

Alphabet, Eli Lilly, Dong-A ST and Alexandria Real Estate Equities backed the immunotherapy developer in a series B round, which took its overall funding to over $335m.