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SoftBank Vision Fund invested $1.46bn to take Grab's series H round, already backed by Toyota, Hyundai, Kia, Booking Holdings, Central Group, Yamaha, Ping An, Microsoft, Tokyo Century and KBank, to $4.5bn.

GV Cisco Investments and NTT subsidiary Dimension Data are all set to exit wifi technology provider Mist Systems, which has raised $88m in funding.

The Cisco-backed managed detection service provider has reeled in $47m from a Warburg Pincus-led round that boosted its overall funding to about $87m.

Australia Trailblazer Fund is the third such regional fund to be formed by Salesforce Ventures in the past nine months and follows $100m vehicles in Canada and Japan.

The data management platform has increased its overall funding to $14m in an $11.7m round featuring Salesforce Ventures and will put the cash towards recruitment.

Ghent-founded indoor position technology business Pozyx has amassed more than $1.5m having recently completed the launch of its initial product range.

DataStax last raised funding in 2014 when Comcast Ventures backed its $106m series E round, and now the database technology developer is aiming for a $1bn valuation in its IPO.

The fund has been formed as part of a wider technology and research investment drive that will involve up to $8.3bn being spent in the next five years.

Last-mile consumer goods delivery service provider DoorDash raised $400m, from SoftBank´s Vision Fund at a valuation of $7.1bn

Identity verification technology developer Socure has collected $30m in series C funding from investors including Synchrony Financial, though Santander InnoVentures did not return this time.

American Express has taken part in the $25m round, which increased API integration platform developer Cloud Elements' total funding to $46.2m.