The visual shopping tool provider increased its total funding to more than $34m in a series C round co-led by Sonae IM that featured several more corporate units.

Palo Alto Networks will acquire the cybersecurity orchestration platform developer, which had raised $69m from investors including Slack and Wipro, for a mixture of cash and stock.

TTU Innovation Hub graduated six companies from its accelerator and helped its wider affiliate community secure a total of $3.5m in grant funding.

The environmental microbiome testing kit maker, based on Oregon research, has collected series A capital from investors including Western Digital Capital and 3M Ventures.

Robert Haché will end his tenure as vice-president of research and innovation at York University to lead Laurentian University from July.

Dell Technologies Capital has re-upped in the Francisco Partners-led round, which increased the database software provider's overall funding to $146m.

SoftBank and TPG's venture capital partnership has supplied an eight-figure dollar amount of series B2 funding to food retail management platform Shiheng.

Pinpoint has launched its software engineering analytics platform following a $13.5m round that featured Bloomberg Beta and Slack Fund.

Nan Fung-backed mitochondrial therapy developer Stealth BioTherapeutics floated at the foot of its range to raise $78m, having disclosed $100m in financing last June.

Vikram Jandhyala is standing down as executive director of University of Washington’s CoMotion but will remain with the university in other capacities.