IT

Salesforce-backed recruitment software provider SmartRecruiters will use the proceeds from the series D round to expand into the Europe and Asia Pacific markets.

Speech processing software developer BabbleLabs secured the cash in a round co-led by Dell Technologies Capital and Intel Capital.

The Cisco-backed customer communications software provider increased its total funding to about $114m with the round, which came four months after its series C.

Salesforce Ventures has exited the content marketing platform in an acquisition by Upland Software that follows some $22m in funding.

Dell Technologies Capital will exit container cybersecurity technology provider Twistlock in an acquisition by Palo Alto Networks that follows $63m of funding.

Corporate-backed RAM memory product developer Avalanche Technology has now raised more than $100m, its earlier backers including Qualcomm, VTB and Rogers Venture Partners.

NetApp paid $70m to acquire the data protection software developer, which had raised $11m from investors including Prosegur.

TUM spinout Kiutra has secured seed funding to ramp up operations for its cyrogenic cooling technology, which it regards as the answer to the problem of industrial-scale quantum manufacturing.

Morse Micro, a designer of wifi chips for IoT applications, has won the support of Uniseed and the Csiro Innovation Fund in a round that brought its total to at least $20.8m.

Aces has obtained a eight-figure amount from University of Tokyo-focused venture fund Deep30, which mainly backs AI technologies from the university's Matsuo Lab.

Lenovo Capital and Incubator Group has provided $14.4m in series A funding for the augmented reality module technology developer having also led its last round.