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Salesforce Ventures contributed to a series B round valuing the compliance management platform developer at $1bn.

HPE and Robert Bosch have returned to reinvest in the remote communication technology provider in a round that lifted its total funding past $130m.

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 corporate-backed satellite data provider's Jacobs-backed series D round boosted its overall funding to $302m.

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

The engineering and industrial technology provider plans to invest in up to six companies a year through its newly formed corporate venture capital unit.

Siemens and Alphabet both backed the data warehousing platform developer in a series C1 round that hiked its overall funding to nearly $250m.

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.

SoftBank led the data management software provider's latest round, which included Carbide Ventures.

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.