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Jodi Olson has reportedly left Alphabet’s early-stage investment arm, where she had been a communications and marketing partner for roughly a decade.

The latest round raised by Everli and backed by Pernod Ricard was boosted by just over $24m from United Ventures, taking the grocery delivery service's overall funding to over $143m.

Wipro and Intel backed customer experience platform developer Lilt's $55m series C while Pfizer is buying corporate-backed respiratory virus therapeutic developer ReViral for up to $525m.

SoftBank Vision Fund 2 co-led the virtual avatar infrastructure builder’s $110m series C round, which emerged alongside a $20m series B featuring new and returning investors.

Mitsui took part in oncology therapy developer Ensem Therapeutics' $67m series A round while Bioventus is paying up to $450m to buy the rest of portfolio company CartiHeal.

Prologis Ventures has returned to back the Associated Press, Samsung Next and Workday Ventures-backed business data software developer’s latest round, hiking its funding to over $132m in total.

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

Crypto.com, Huobi and BitMart invested in cryptocurrency scaling technology developer Boba Network at a $1.5bn valuation while natural fibre composite provider Bcomp netted $34.9m in a BMW-led round.

HPE, Alphabet, Ericsson, Qualcomm, Oracle, Liberty Global and NetApp are set to exit the edge computing technology provider.

Fertility financing service Future Family, machine learning software developer Black Crow AI and digital twin software provider vHive each nabbed $25m in corporate-backed rounds.

Xerox, Bottomline Technologies and Massachusetts Mutual were potentially among the investors in a round valuing the contract analytics software developer at $800m.