Sectors

Several corporates backed a $68m series D round for microbiome drug developer Vedanta Biosciences while grooming brand owner Pangaea raised the same amount from investors including Unilever.

The Bohai, Haier and PCI-Suntek-backed facial recognition technology developer has been approved to float on Shanghai’s Star Market in a $574m offering.

SIG has returned to back the IT operations software provider’s series E round, some seven months after its series D3 round.

The Salesforce-backed recruitment managemeent software provider was valued at $1.5bn in a round that pushed its overall funding past $200m.

TMRW Life Sciences is eyeing a global expansion of its frozen egg and embryo management services with new capital from investors including GV.

Seek and Salesforce Ventures helped the human resources software provider raise cash in a series E round led by Insight Partners at a $568m valuation.

The NFT marketplace, which counts Coinbase, Animoca Brands and Gumi as investors, raised the funding in a series B round led by Andreessen Horowitz.

Danaher is in line to exit proteomics platform developer IsoPlexis in a Nasdaq Global Market offering with a $100m placeholder target.

Nan Fung and Lam Research are set to exit the DNA sequencing technology developer in an $800m acquisition by market peer Pacific Biosciences.

Panakès Partners is now targeting a final close upwards of $210m for its Purple Fund, which has reached its Menarini-backed first close.

Insight Partners and Tiger Global Management co-led a series C round valuing the Google, Slack and Intel-backed collaboration software provider above $2bn.