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UOB Venture Management led a $30m round for social commerce platform developer Evermos while Advanced Farm Technologies and Nex each bagged $25m.

Silicon Motion and Western Digital returned to participate in a series B round which will fund work on DeepVision's edge computing hardware and software.

Daiichi Life helped sales technology provider BellFace take its total funding above $80m while ZKTube Labs and Boom Entertainment each raised $15m.

Ideo contributed to female-focused debit card provider Sequin's $5m seed round while Nikon has exited motion data software developer Wrnch.

Every day, Global University Venturing rounds up the smaller investments from across the university innovation ecosystem in its deal net.

GV owns a 6.6% stake in the DevOps platform developer, which was valued at $6bn as of a secondary share sale late last year.

JSR is buying semiconductor manufacturing technology producer Inpria, giving an exit to fellow corporates SK Hynix, TSMC, Intel, Air Liquide, Applied Materials and Samsung.

Oregon State University spinout Inpria has agreed to a purchase by its existing shareholder JSR and will become a subsidiary of the petrochemical company.

Data recovery platform developer Rewind has closed a series B funding round backed by Atlassian’s investment arm, Atlassian Ventures, as well as FundFire.

Alibaba and Ping An-backed Prenetics is set to complete a reverse merger at a $1.25bn valuation. Exits from the broader genetics and gene therapeutics space appear to be in the middle of a valuation spike, according to our data.

Conductive Ventures returned for online savings platform developer Self Financial's $50m series E round while EV producer Volta Trucks completed its $43.6m series B.