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The electric truck developer has closed a round co-led by Amazon and Ford Motor Company, pushing its overall funding past the $10bn mark.

The Mitsui and Intel-backed video software developer has a market capitalisation of almos $1.5bn following its initial public offering last week.

SoftBank’s Vision Fund 2 has backed the life insurance platform developer at a $2.7bn valuation, taking its overall funding to over $400m.

The Lenovo-backed system-on-chip product maker secured over $150m in a series B round co-led by China Development Bank Capital and China V Fund.

Rakuten is exiting the online reading platform developer in a $500m acquisition by online education provider Byju’s following $50m in funding.

AGC, JSR Life Sciences and Merck & Co all scored exits as the synthetic biology technology developer floated on Nasdaq, whose valuation reportedly stands at nearly $2bn.

Goldman Sachs' digital wealth management spinoff has six other banks as backers and has reached a WestCap-led first close of its series B round.

Takeda has returned to back the cancer therapeutics developer’s series D round after committing $120m in equity and milestone financing just over 18 months ago.

ChargePoint has agreed to pay $294m to acquire the EV charging station management platform, two years after the latter secured an undisclosed amount from Volkswagen.

Our data suggest that valuations in the HR tech space are picking up. Two deals stories from last week confirm the trend.

Branding services provider Tailor Brands raised $50m in a GoDaddy-led series C round while Orix is set to exit hiring software developer PandoLogic in a $150m acquisition.