Tencent and Sony have provided $263m for FromSoftware while Piramal Capital & Housing Finance backed EarlySalary’s $110m series D round.

Dani Shearman, who had spent nearly four years at the now-independent HorizonX, has joined a sister subsidiary, Boeing Phantom Works.

FTX and Coinbase took part in a $200m round for NFT game developer Limit Break while Schaeffler, Kingspan and Marcegaglia backed H2 Green Steel’s $190m series B.

Applied Ventures has doubled its war chest to $100m per year and is looking to engage with materials engineering startups in a new way.

HubSpot Ventures has hired Nate Morgan after a combined six years at Springdale Ventures, Evercore and Deutsche Bank.

Bertelsmann-backed paywall management software provider Zephr is set to be acquired by Zuora in a $44m deal while Meituan co-led a $875m round for EV battery producer Sunwoda.

Healthcare companies may be driving a public markets recovery while Lunar Energy, helmed by Tesla's former head of energy, has emerged from stealth with $300m.

Lunar Energy disclosed $300m from investors including Sunrun and SK, and acquired Honda, Itochu and Tokyo Electric Power-backed Moixa for an undisclosed amount.

Yan Yan and Veronica Vallez have joined TDK Ventures as investment analyst and recruitment principal respectively.

Krystyn Van Vliet will move from MIT to Cornell in February to take over as vice-president for research and innovation and a professor in the College of Engineering.