Edge cloud platform Fastly has hired Bank of America to oversee an IPO valuing it at $1bn which would provide exits for Swisscom, Deutsche Telekom and O’Reilly Media.

Home equity investment service Point has raised $22m in series B funding from investors including Prudential and Bloomberg, and $100m in platform financing.

Valor Siren Ventures I has signed up Starbucks as a cornerstone investor as it seeks to close its fund at $400m to back food and retail technology developers.

The real estate-focused chatbot developer has now raised more than $71m in total, having secured series C funding from investors including Realogy, Royal Bank of Canada and Northwestern Mutual.

Ease, the HR enrolment and benefits software provider formerly known as EaseCentral, took its total funding to almost $28m in a Propel Venture Partners-backed series B round.

Virgo Investment Group has invested $18m in the PAR-backed online fitness platform in the form of series C funding, bringing its overall equity financing to $41m.

OSF Ventures, OSF Healthcare's corporate venturing unit, has backed healthcare-focused VC firm LRVHealth's fourth fund, which had set a $100m target for close.

Eric Steager, formerly managing director at Independence Blue Cross’ Strategic Innovation Portfolio unit, has taken a vice-president of corporate venture capital position at Anthem.

Plans have emerged for an Illinois State University-run incubator offering broader entrepreneurial supports than a previous scheme closed in 2016.

General Atlantic and a range of unidentified backers are exploring a $300m investment in Wish that would value the Legend Capital-backed e-commerce marketplace at $11bn pre-money.