The brokerage was among the prospective buyers that failed to meet SoftBank and Renren-backed SoFi's $8bn to $10bn valuation.

Panasonic has acquired behavioural AI technology developer Arimo, three years after its Bloomberg Beta-backed series A round.

The marketing platform has secured series B financing from a consortium including Shutterstock and will use the cash to expand its team.

Quest Diagnostics will acquire Cleveland HeartLab, a cardiac diagnostics test provider spun out of Cleveland Clinic, or an undisclosed sum.

The Fujitsu-backed network communications developer expects to achieve a $30m close for the round in early 2018.

NetSuite-backed marketing software provider DirectScale will put the capital into product development, sales and marketing.

Hair-colouring brand Madison Reed will use the proceeds from the Comcast-led round to expand its brick-and-mortar colour bars.

The Tencent-backed online services provider floated above its range, showing the promise in Southeast Asia for Chinese internet companies.

Eight corporates including Comcast and Qualcomm are set to exit smart lock developer August Home in a purchase by Assa Abloy.

AstraZeneca has returned to back a $200m private placement for cancer drug developer ADC Therapeutics, which has now raised a total of $455m.