Naver, Simon Property and O’Reilly Media-backed Foursquare is joining forces with peer Factual to create the world's biggest location intelligence provider.

The employee management software provider closed a series C round featuring all its existing investors, which include Novel TMT Ventures.

Farm Credit Canada provided more than a third of the capital as food and beverage-focused District Ventures Capital closed its fund at $70.8m.

Silver Lake and Sixth Street Partners supplied debt and equity financing for the Alphabet-backed online short-term accommodation platform at a $26bn valuation.

M12 participated in a round for University of Bristol spinout PsiQuantum, which is developing a quantum computer system.

Cedars-Sinai Medical Center contributed to a round for the stealth-stage diagnostics technology developer, which raised $101m less than a year ago.

The Pharamron-backed oncology drug developer floated at the top of its range while increasing the number of shares in the offering.

NetEase, SoftBank, Time Warner, Madison Square Garden, Dick Clark Productions, Citic Guoan, Founder Group and Comcast could all exit the virtual event platform developer.

The online training platform developer increased its overall funding to more than $29m with a series C round led by Axa Venture Partners.

Undisclosed pharmaceutical companies were among the investors in the venture firm's third fund, which will target biopharmaceutical developers.