The digital bank is now valued at $2.8bn, following a $440m round led by a $390m investment by SoftBank Vision Fund and backed by Clermont Group.

The retailer has invested $100m in footwear marketplace Goat Group, which already counts Matrix Partners, Upfront Ventures, Webb Investment Network and Accel as shareholders.

Ximalaya FM and Susquehanna International Group have taken part in a $100m round to launch podcast network Himalaya, which was spun out of Ximalaya.

Rita Waite, a Juniper Ventures investment manager who was part of this year's GCV Rising Stars list, will join financial services firm Millennium's payment products team.

NYU and Allied Minds-founded Ram technology developer Spin Memory has unveiled deep tech-focused VC firm Abies Ventures as an investor in a $52m series B first announced late last year.

Dianomi Therapeutics will work with Ligand on a medication delivery platform based on research from University of Wisconsin-Madison initially targeting pain disorders and osteoarthritis.

The electric scooter rental platform is now valued at $2.4bn, after securing $310m in a round co-led by GV that included its parent company, Alphabet.

GV and WuXi NextCode both returned to back a $68m round for DNANexus, bringing the biomedical informatics platform’s total funding to approximately $173m.

The meditation app developer has quadrupled its valuation to $1bn in just eight months, in an $88m series B round featuring CAA.

The AbbVie, Eli Lilly, Amgen, Merck & Co and Alphabet-backed neurodegenerative disease drug developer is floating in the middle of its range.