Energy

Several corporates helped hydrogen refuelling service H2 Mobility Deutschland collect $122m while enterprise optimisation software developer Skan.ai closed a $40m Dell-led series B round

Alibaba helped AR glasses provider Nreal take its funding to $200m in the past year while SGE led a $60m series D round for online coder recruitment service HackerRank.

DigitalBridge Ventures led wireless adoption software developer Celona's $60m series C round while Papaya is paying up to $200m for Rakuten-backed payment platform developer Azimo.

Duke Energy is among the investors in Source Global, which has created panels that generate clean drinking water from sunlight and water vapour.

Bikini brand Frankies Bikinis received $18m from strategic investor Victoria's Secret while department store retailer Lojas Renner has formed a $31m investment vehicle.

The drone technology provider raised capital from a host of corporates, bringing its total funding to over $84m.

The Global and China L4 Autonomous Driving and Start-ups Report, 2021, found that except for a few companies, such as Waymo and Uber, which performed worse than expected, level four (L4) autonomous driving firms in other fields gained momentum.

Multiple corporates helped call centre software producer Cresta raise $80m at a $1.6bn valuation while agricultural intelligence provider Apollo secured $40m in a round led by Softbank Vision Fund 2.

Deutsche Telekom-backed DTCP was among the investors that pushed the cybersecurity management platform developer’s valuation to $2.6bn.

Radiopharmaceuticals developer Precirix completed an $88m series B round featuring Novo while corporate-backed kitchen technology provider Bear Robotics raised $81m.

Monthly analysis: February 2022