Transportation services provider Via raised the money as part of a series E round also featuring Shell, Hearst Ventures and Mori Building valuing it at $2.25bn.

Brandon Middaugh has been promoted from Microsoft's cloud energy and sustainability team to direct the Climate Innovation Fund it disclosed in January.

Fast will put the funding into recruitment and the international roll-out of its rapid e-commerce login and checkout system.

Avail Medsystems, a remote medical device startup which counts Baidu Ventures as an investor, has captured $15m in new funding.

The corporate owned a 15% stake in immunotherapy developer Lyell, which recently raised $493m, with a fair value of $203m as of the end of 2019.

Snoot Entertainment helped Star Citizen developer Cloud Imperium secure $17.3m in funding having invested at a $496m post-money valuation in 2018.

The move came after the satellite wifi service developer reportedly failed to raise $2bn from investors including existing backer SoftBank Vision Fund.

Vodafone, Deutsche Telekom and Qualcomm are all set to exit the mobile network technology producer, which had raised just over $140m.

The indoor farm operator, which has already raised $400m, is in talks with existing investor SoftBank Vision Fund for a round likely to value it at up to $1bn.

The data management software provider has now secured a total of $115m, Cisco Investments returning to back its latest round.