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Online skills platform developer Sanjieke disclosed over $31m in funding from investors including Udemy while gaming guild Avocado Guild pulled in $18m through a round co-led by Animoca Brands.

The plant-based food producer increased its overall funding to almost $2bn in a round backed by existing investors that could include GV.

E-commerce incubator and aggregator Benitago Groupe followed a $55m seed round earlier this year with an HSBC-backed series A.

Coinbase Ventures contributed to a $55m round for music-focused NFT platform developer Royal while neural search technology developer Jina AI raised $30m in an SAP-backed round.

Sumer Juneja, Lydia Jett, Vikas Parekh and Dennis Chang have all ascended at SoftBank Investment Advisers, which runs the corporate's Vision Funds.

SoftBank Vision Fund 2 supplied funding to the influencer e-commerce platform developer at a $2bn valuation to help accelerate growth and boost international expansion.

IP Group returned for the Bristol spinout's series D that will go to product development and commercialisation.

Vifor Pharma is snapping up Lundbeck and Baxter-backed vascular drug developer Sanifit for at least $231m while solar project developer SUN Energy closed $25m in funding at a $200m valuation.

SBI Life was among the 33 anchor investors that backed the legwear brand’s $61.2m round, disclosed the day before the latter went public.

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Autonomous driving technology developer MaxiEye bagged nearly $50m in a Desay-led round while software testing technology producer Mabl raised $40m from investors including GV and Presidio Ventures.