Cisco Investments, Microsoft Ventures, GV, Salesforce Ventures and Workday Ventures all backed a series A round for the digital meeting assistant developer.

State Street Corporation has invested $38.5m in Bertelsmann-backed e-commerce platform Pepperfry, taking its total funding to almost $200m.

The biotechnology research platform developer has closed a round co-led by Monsanto Growth Ventures that included Tencent and Baidu.

Amazon Alexa Fund made its second investment in the smart thermostat developer, which has now raised $146m altogether.

Neurodegenerative disease startup Prevail Therapeutics has raised series A funding from backers including Alexandria Venture Investments.

Humacyte, an Access Industries-backed developer of tissue-based biological repair technology, has now raised $290m in financing in total.

The pet food and health product maker has formed a corporate venturing fund called Companion Fund and an accelerator dubbed Leap.

Tanel Ozdemir, an alumnus of UCL, has joined Albion Capital as an analyst of the UCL Technology Fund.

The round included Visa, BBVA, SBI Group, ABN Amro's Digital Impact Fund and Bertelsmann's Arvato Financial Solutions subsidiary.