The blood test developer took in $165m through a series B round led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2 that came three years after a Tencent-backed series A.

The Citigroup-backed internal communication monitoring platform received $100m from SoftBank Vision Fund 2 that will fund international growth.

Emerging Growth and Incubation has selected eight groups of technology developers from its global offices, and candidates could theoretically receive hundreds of millions to fund the ideas.

GCV Emerging Leader Blake Luse, previously a director at Ferguson Ventures, has been appointed head of the unit and a senior director at its parent company.

Manufacturing partner WuXi Biologics participated in a series A round for the startup, which aims to transfer human biopharmaceutical practices to animal drug development.

UBC's Lab2Launch incubator will nurture embryonic inventions mainly from the life sciences sector through the validation of their concepts.

Sony, Arm, MediaTek, BMW and Porsche helped lift audio processing software developer DSP Concepts' overall funding to about $25m.

Tarana, a broadband services provider advancing research from UC Berkeley, has raised $24m in funding with commitments for an additional $36m.

CapitalG, which first invested in the credit management platform at a sub-$1bn valuation, will exit in a $7.1bn purchase by Intuit.

The cyber insurance supplier raised the money in a series B round co-led by a corporate venturing vehicle for long-term partner Munich Re.