Alibaba-backed luxury goods marketplace 1stdibs has gained Groupe Artémis as an investor in a round it said took its primary funding to $170m.

AI application platform developer SambaNova has raised $150m in a series B round led by Intel Capital that also featured existing investor GV.

Intel's corporate venturing vehicle has announced participation in 14 funding deals and backed non-profit organisation HBCU.vc.

The Microsoft and Green Bay Packers-backed venture capital fund has raised additional capital as it moves towards a reported $25m target.

Sonae IM joined Octopus Ventures, Sequoia Capital and Pereg Ventures to lift retail management platform CB4's overall funding to approximately $23m.

WeWork has backed Proxy in a $13.6m round after introducing the company’s workplace access control system at its New York and San Francisco offices.

The corporate-backed genome editing technology developer Precision BioSciences, which was spun out of Duke University, floated in the middle of its range and is now valued at more than $780m.

Investment director Johanna Schmidtke left the petrochemical company's corporate venturing unit in late 2018 for a position at private equity firm Ara Partners.

Cisco has funded an independent venture firm called Decibel that will make early-stage investments in US and Canada-based enterprise technology developers.

GV-backed restaurant management platform developer Toast is now valued at $2.7bn, having secured funding in a round co-led by TCV and Tiger Global Management.