Volvo Cars, Corning and Cornes-backed lidar technology developer Luminar is merging with a special purpose acquisition vehicle to form a company with an expected $3.4bn valuation.

The Capital One and Salesforce-backed data management platform developer - valued at $12.4bn in February - has filed to go public.

The insurance firm's corporate venturing unit has admitted external limited partners for its AFV Fund III, which just closed at $213m.

The Dell-backed software management technology provider was valued at $1.5bn as of October and has initially filed to raise $100m.

TearClear has raised $34.8m to date to fund an anti-preservative eye drop technology invented at University of Florida.

Baxter Ventures is set to exit the kidney dialysis device maker, which has just filed to go public following upwards of $430m in venture funding.

Every day, Global University Venturing rounds up the smaller investments from across the university innovation ecosystem in its deal net.

The protein degradation drug developer's valuation has rocketed following an offering that achieved exits for Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Pfizer, Sanofi, Amgen and Merck & Co.

CapitalG, which joined Dataiku’s shareholders through a secondary transaction last year, has now made its first primary investment in the data management software provider.

Gigafund led a series C round for the GV and Stripe-backed online coding school to increase its overall funding to approximately $122m.