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Maxburg Capital Partners paid an undisclosed amount for retail analytics provider Metoda, whose exiting investors included Tengelmann vehicle TEV.

CTC Capital has led an $58m series E round for AISpeech, a natural language processing technology developer already backed by TusPark Ventures.

HPE, Cisco Investments and SoftBank Vision Fund chipped in as the data management platform developer more than doubled its valuation to $2.5bn.

Runcheng Group was among the participants in a $49.4m round for the mobile sensor producer, which will use the cash to expand inertial measurement unit production.

BAIC Group has contributed to a $57.8m round for AISpeech, a natural language processing technology developer already backed by Foxconn, MediaTek and Legend Holdings.

Google for Startups Accelerator will begin on April 21 with an initial cohort that includes concepts related to the UN's environment, inequality and health objectives.

Mutual insurer Sham has led a $20m round for healthcare cybersecurity software provider CyberMDX that expanded its total funding to $30m.

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

Capital One-backed data access platform developer Okera boosted its overall funding to almost $30m and is investing in sales, marketing and engineering.

Singtel Innov8 returned for Cato Networks’ latest round, which advanced the enterprise networking technology provider’s total funding past $200m.

Salesforce Ventures and ABN Amro Ventures helped data privacy software producer Privitar push its overall funding to more than $140m.