Mortgage advice provider Homebot has been bought by ASG three years after raising seed funding from investors including Black Knight Financial Services and Axel Springer.

Industrial data repository Element has now received $40m in total, Evonik, Schneider Electric Ventures, Honeywell and ABB having backed its latest round.

The short-term apartment provider raised the funding at a $1.3bn valuation and is seeking another $30m to close the round at $200m.

AMD and ConsenSys formed the decentralised data centre developer as a joint venture and have both contributed to a $20.5m round.

The 6 Dimensions Capital-backed cancer immunotherapy developer has raised more than $200m in funding and has filed to raise up to $100m.

Capital Markets Gateway added the funding from investors including Shea Ventures, Barclays, Citi, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, Morgan Stanley and Fidelity.

Sethuraman Panchanathan has been appointed the new director of the US National Science Foundation, having previously held executive positions at ASU.

Renren has exited the thematic stock investing platform in an acquisition of undisclosed size by Charles Schwab that followed $126m in funding.

Gilead Sciences will invest $275m in return for a 49.9% stake as part of a deal that could see it purchase the cancer immunotherapy developer outright.

Sana Biotechnology has closed its first round at more than $700m after investors including GV swung behind its vision to commercialise cell therapies.