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Customer communications technology provider Kustomer has acquired chatbot developer Reply, handing exits to Aflac, R/GA and Westfield.

Haier Financial Holdings has backed a $254m funding round for CloudWalk, a spinout of Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Haier Financial Holdings has backed a $254m funding round for CloudWalk, a spinout of Chinese Academy of Sciences whose shareholders also include Bohai Capital and PCI-Suntek Technology.

Intel Capital has invested at least $132m in 12 companies so far this year and is on its way to putting between $300m and $500m into startups by the end of 2020.

CyberArk has bought zero-trust identity management platform Idaptive for $70m in cash, two years after it was spun out from Centrify.

CapitalG has led a $50m series D round for Expel, bringing the cybersecurity technology developer’s total financing to more than $117m in four years.

Slack-aligned online help desk tool provider Halp has been picked up by Atlassian after disclosing just $2.6m in funding.

Qihoo 360-founded Qi An Xin has filed for an initial public offering on China’s Star Market that will provide exits for Red Star Macalline and China Electronics Corporation.

Dell Technologies Capital has led a $30m series A round for machine learning technology developer Sima.ai that will use the money to accelerate production efforts.

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

Telus Ventures has placed a bet on debt recovery software developer Symend in a round bringing the latter's lifetime funding to $60m.