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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

Comment by Adam Salkin, a partner in one of Israel’s leading law firms, Herzog, Fox & Neeman

Innovative region: Israel

Analysis by James Mawson, founder, Global Corporate Venturing and co-author of Transformative Innovation (with Christine Gulbranson)

MUFG Innovation Partners contributed to mobility financier Moove's $105m series A2 round while MS&AD and Nationwide helped insurance software developer Socotra raise $50m.

SAIC Motor’s Hengxu Capital helped allosteric drug developer Nutshell Therapeutics close a $40m round while cancer therapy developer Impact Therapeutics secured series D1 funding.

Schibsted Ventures participated in a round which pushed the smart energy provider's overall funding to over $170m as it eyes European expansion.

GV returned for a multimillion dollar round raised by the clinical data software provider, which is part of a space of much interest to corporate investors.