Takeda Ventures and Alexandria Venture Investments have taken part in a $70m series A round for Ensoma, with Takeda separately signing a strategic collaboration deal.

Dexcel Pharma has co-led a $60m series A round for Immunai, which previously collected $20m in seed financing less than a year ago.

Allianz will receive a minority stake in the financial services technology provider after agreeing to invest $42.2m in funding.

KDDI Open Innovation Fund has thrown its weight behind Swift Navigation, a global positioning technology developer already backed by Qualcomm Ventures.

Eli Lilly has led a series C round for the diabetes treatment developer, which plans to complete preclinical testing of its lead therapy.

IWG has acquired a majority stake in the co-working space provider just weeks after GV bought the shares held by WeWork.

San Francisco Employees’ Retirement System commits $48m.

He was previously a partner at venture capital firm Intellis Capital.

Illumina has also gathered £20m ($25m) to every graduate from its UK-based accelerator.

Zaveri had joined Gradient after three years at VC firm Kleiner Perkins.