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The corporate-backed lidar technology provider will now be valued at $1.52bn pre-acquisition rather than the $1.9bn figure when the deal was announced in February.

SoftBank Vision Fund led a $75m round valuing OKR platform developer WorkBoard at $800m while therapist network provider Headway hit a $750m valuation.

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

The Alibaba and Telstra-backed cloud services provider has filed to float in the United States having raised a reported $445m in the past five years.

Solidia Technologies, Kelun Biotech and Doer Biologics all raised more than $70m while Sony added cash to a round valuing Discord at $7bn.

Oxford University Innovation has revealed it launched 37 new companies between April 2020 and March 2021, its best run yet.

Fosun is set to exit the mobile data-monitoring platform developer in an acqusition by Mobvista that will follow $36m of funding.

Point A will enable Atlassian’s employees to receive funding and guidance to develop new additions to its product range.

Jackie Kossmann, who joined Applied Ventures in 2017 and won a GCV Rising Stars award in January, will be an investor at In-Q-Tel.

Shapeways is another company from the 3D printing space, which has gone public through a reverse merger, after its peer Desktop Metal in 2020. The additive manufacturing space has seen a somewhat modest interest from corporate investors in the past decade.

Driverless vehicle developer EasyMile closed a $66.4m round featuring Alstom and Continental while UCB and LivaNova-backed EEG technology developer Ceribell secured $53m.