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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.

The device management platform developer closed its third round in two years with backing from Okta Ventures.

Tencent helped the motion tracking technology developer secure series D funding that will go to product development and commercialisation.

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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.

The cybersecurity technology producer was valued at $8.3bn in a round that included existing backers Liberty Global Ventures and Snowflake Ventures.

Subsidiaries of Alphabet and Cisco were among the investors which pushed the cybersecurity technology provider to unicorn status.

Koch Disruptive Technologies helped molecular diagnostics system developer Sense Biodetection expand its latest round to $65m while Hilti bought portfolio company Fieldwire for $300m.

Citi Ventures-backed Braze priced the offering above its range and it valued the customer engagement software producer at almost $5.9bn.

The voice intraction technology provider, which counts a host of corporates among its investors, will get a Nasdaq listing through the transaction.

The venture capital market has expanded rapidly over the past few decades, maturing and diversifying with the development of a variety of investment strategies, including more widespread and sophisticated secondary transactions.