Novo Holdings has joined the early-stage consortium of Praxis Precision, a gene therapy business targeting neurological mechanisms across CNS-driven and psychiatric diseases.

GV has returned for an $87m series D round for Cockroach Labs, having already participated in all of the database technology developer’s previous rounds.

At-home clinical testing services provider LetsGetChecked has raised $71m from investors including Illumina and Optum as it faces increased demand.

Posco-backed medical device developer Pulmonx has added $66m to its coffers thanks to a consortium led by Ally Bridge and secured an additional $17m to refinance a debt facility.

Two years after Telstra Ventures led a $43m series D round for Cumulus Networks, Nvidia has agreed to purchase the data centre networking technology provider.

Intel Capital-backed GigaSpaces increased its funding total to $60m with a round set to drive growth of its transactional data orchestration platform.

The marketing agency has partnered its ISID subsidiary to form a new open innovation arm in Silicon Valley, appointing Dentsu Ventures’ Yu Hirayama to manage the initiative.

Workforce collaboration software business Tehama, a spinout of IT services firm Pythian, attracted investors including Omers Ventures for its first funding round.

Novo Holdings has joined the early-stage consortium of Praxis Precision, a gene therapy business co-founded by faculty from Columbia and Melbourne universities.

PPD has backed clinical trial preparation software developer Medable as an existing investor having also partnered the business to launch a telemedicine-based clinical trial product last year.