Financial services firm City National Bank has bought EP-backed royalties payment platform Exactuals having led its series B round last year.

Blueberry Therapeutics will use the proceeds from the $12.8m China Medical System-backed round to advance its skin and nail infection treatments.

Anti-food waste platform developer Karma has secured Electrolux as a strategic partner as well as an investor in a Kinnevik-led round.

The personal finance app developer, which is backed by Grupo Sura, has secured $28.8m of a $40m round, according to a securities filing.

The food delivery platform has almost tripled its valuation to $4bn in the five months since SoftBank led its $535m series D round.

Digital prescription platform Healthera has been backed by Cambridge Enterprise, its Seed Funds vehicle and UCEF.

Leonard Lee, formerly global head of new business models and services for Airbus, has taken a partner position at Silk Ventures.

Chad Gardner has departed from Modumetal to join Energy Innovation Capital.

Rumi Morales, head of CME Group unit CME Ventures from 2013 to 2017, has joined blockchain-focused Outlier Ventures as a partner.

Cory Steffek, a US-based managing director for Saudi Aramco Energy Ventures, has taken an MD role at private equity investment platform Ara.