Aisin, Airbus, Intel, LG, SBI, Hella and SK Hynix all celebrated a win as AEye agreed to a reverse merger with CF Finance to list on Nasdaq at a $2bn valuation.

Spacecraft manufacturer SpaceX has pushed its valuation to $74bn, a more than sixfold increase on the $12bn it fetched when Google led a $1bn round in 2015.

Prologis has participated in a series E round for the warehouse robotics technology developer, although Zebra Technologies did not return this time.

SoftBank Vision Fund 2 led the round which also attracted SK Networks and will enable Standard Cognition to deploy its autonomous checkout system in hundreds of stores.

The Mouro Capital-backed developer of customer engagement technology has hauled in fresh growth equity funding from Warburg Pincus.

Tencent and its Tencent Music Entertainment unit are among the participants in the royalty attribution service provider’s latest round, four years after UMG and WMG provided seed funding.

Washington University in St Louis joined a consortium of investors that provided $130m in series B financing to the commercial space station developer.

Cambrian Biopharma has backed a round that will go toward further developing Vita’s lead candidate, VTA-110, for muscular dystrophy treatments.

The Johns Hopkins University spinout’s latest funding will go toward further developing its lead candidate, VTA-110, for muscular dystrophy treatments.

Amazon-backed Owlet Baby Care has agreed to a reverse merger with special purpose acquisition company Sandbridge for a post-deal valuation of $1.39bn.