CapitalG-backed Airbnb, valued at $31bn as of 2017, has declared it plans to list its shares next year, and looks likely to choose a direct listing.

The enterprise software producer paid $300m for a 10% stake in content management platform developer Automattic, five years after the company's last funding.

General Catalyst, Sequoia Capital and Andreessen Horowitz all chipped in as Alphabet, Visa and Amex-backed Stripe took its total funding past the $1bn mark.

Recruit and Just Eat-backed TouchBistro has collected another $119m thanks to investors including strategic partners Barclays and JP Morgan Chase.

High school esports platform developer PlayVS, which counts Adidas, Samsung Next and WndrCo as investors, secured series C cash to take its total funding to $96m.

Bruns Machine vehicle HDM has contributed to a $14.2m seed round for food resource forecasting platform Crisp, which has just emerged from stealth.

The farming robotics developer increased its overall funding to more than $20m in a $14.5m round featuring Wilbur Ellis.

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

Oxford spinout Semmle has been acquired by GitHub, a subsidiary of Microsoft, providing exits to investors including Accel that had supplied $31m in funding.

Haldor Topsøe remains the largest shareholder of cancer treatment developer IGM Biosciences, whose shares have risen more than 50% since it floated yesterday.