The Alphabet, Visa and American Express-backed payment and business management tool provider has added $100m from existing investor Tiger Global at a $22.5bn valuation.

Digital Garage has exited the database technology developer, which had raised about $11m, in an acquisition of undisclosed size by Microsoft.

Backed by Stanford-StartX Fund, marketing intelligence platform Knotch has now secured at least $31.5m in total funding and will now pursue technology upgrades and and internal expansion.

Virtual reality entertainment operator Sandbox VR has amassed $68m in series A capital from investors including Stanford University.

Comcast subsidiaries Comcast Ventures and NBCUniversal both invested in the financial management app developer, bringing its valuation up to $860m.

Accenture Ventures and existing investor First Data both participated in a round that increased the banking platform developer's total funding to $42m.

Alphabet's healthcare spinoff, Verily, is doubling the amount of companies in its investment and collaboration hub to about 15 participants.

Video content studio New Form's investors, including ITV and Discovery Communications, have become shareholders of Whistle following the acquisition.

Third-party venture firm University of Arizona Venture Capital raised its first fund last year and has since backed five Arizona-linked businesses with an average cheque size of $2m.

Cisco Investments took part in the customer relationship platform developer's series C round, which increased its total funding to approximately $74m.