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Citi Ventures, Salesforce Ventures and Telstra Ventures all invested in blockchain infrastructure provider Blockdaemon's series D round while GV backed cybersecurity software provider Obsidian's $90m series C.

Several corporate venture investors participated in a round which took the crypto IoT network developer's valuation to $1.2bn. The round and the company are part of the larger crypto tech space, which has been attracting much interest and capital in most recent times.

Salesforce Ventures returned for a series C round which will support an ongoing acquisition spree for the digital transformation services provider.

Decentralised finance technology developer BloXroute raised $70m in a round led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2 while Ackermans & van Haaren helped digital health technology developer Medikabazaar score a $700m valuation.

SoftBank Vision Fund 2 led a round for cloud software marketplace Pax8 that included Liberty Global Ventures at a $1.7bn valuation.

The AI-powered call centre technology developer raised fresh capital in a round led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2 that also featured Zoom, Next47 and NGP Capital.

The software automation technology provider has agreed to be taken over by Perforce having raised $127m from investors including Alphabet, Cisco and VMWare.

Recombinant protein technology provider Healthgen netted over $87m while shared living space provider Hmlet is buying corporate-backed peer Habyt and Uniswap Labs is launching an investment vehicle.

The Global University Venturing deal net rounds up the smaller investments from across the university innovation ecosystem.

The metaverse technology developer has now pushed its overall funding past $750m since emerging out of Cambridge’s Department of Computer Science and Technology.

Burda Principal Investments was among the participants that backed the virtual private network provider at a $1.6bn valuation.