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XL Innovate led a $17m round for property data provider Cape Analytics that included Hartford, Nephila, CSAA, Cincinnati Insurance and State Auto Labs.

FaceSoft has been officially spun out after winning $12,800 in proof-of-concept funding in a university business competition last year.

Amazon Alexa Fund, Comcast Ventures, Salesforce Ventures and Microsoft's M12 unit helped the AI sales platform take its total funding to $57m.

The round boosted the total raised by the marketing demand orchestration platform, which is also backed by Comcast, to $57m.

Seed backer Singtel Innov8 reinvested as part of an $11.5m round that will fund further work on Silverport's authentication technology.

Comcast Ventures and SAP.iO returned to back a series B round closed only five months after the cybsersecurity software provider's series A.

Foxconn and MediaTek contributed to a $75.7m round that speech recognition technology provider AISpeech will use for hiring and product development.

A total of 22 participants have each received $100,000 in funding as part of the UC Berkeley accelerator.

The electronics maker took part in a round that increased the total raised by Intel-backed retail data provider Bossa Nova to $88m.

Email security software provider Agari, whose investors include Dell, increased its funding to $88m altogether with a Goldman Sachs-led round.

WPP, News Corp, Microsoft and Deutsche Telekom will exit adtech provider AppNexus in a purchase that is reportedly worth about $1.6bn.