Financial

Visa helped the emerging markets financial services provider raise fresh capital at a $400m valuation to take its overall funding to $200m.

DivcoWest, JLL and Allegion combined in a $60m round for workplace data platform developer VergeSense while Sanofi committed up to $60m to ocular therapeutics developer Gyroscope.

The regulatory information service counts SoftBank, Renren, Jipyong, The Economist Group and S&P Global as existing investors and will get a Nasdaq listing through the deal.

Alibaba Entrepreneurs Fund reinvested in e-commerce lender Qupital through a round which will support geographical expansion.

Cox Enterprises led a $58m round for healthcare delivery software provider Enlace Health while Johnson & Johnson snapped up portfolio company OrthoSpin for almost $80m.

Satellite launch vehicle developer ABL Space Systems raised a multimillion dollar series B round, which took its total funding to $420m with a $200m extension to its latest round.

Alibaba, Ant Financial and Berkshire Hathaway are among the anchor investors for a provision set to make up nearly half of the payment platform developer's $2.45bn target for its IPO.

FTV Capital provided the Restaurant Group-backed payment platform developer with fresh capital that will be used to boost its expansion across new industries.

FTX and Binance came on board for the game monetisation software developer’s series C round, taking its total funding to $270m.

Sector report: Oil & gas Q3 2021

While COP26 is about to start and the representatives of almost 200 countries prepare to gather in Glasgow for what has been described as “the world’s best last chance to get runaway climate change under control”, the energy industry is in the middle of a profound metamorphosis that could radically reshape global power production and transform our relationship with the planet’s natural resources.