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Uber's operations in four Eastern European countries will merge with Yandex Taxi in a deal that could signify it plans to take a less direct, CVC-influenced approach to some markets.

Customer data collection platform Segment has raised $64m in a series C round co-led by GV and Y Combinator Continuity Fund that took its total funding to $109m.

Intel, Juniper Networks and strategic partner IBM contributed to a round that increased Lightbend's overall funding to $52m.

Motorola Solutions Venture Capital led the ID authentication technology provider's latest round, which included Lenovo, Korea Information Certificate Authority, DDS and Docomo Innovations

Marketing data platform Qloo has now raised approximately $14m altogether, having completed a round that included Axa Strategic Ventures.

New York Life is set to exit mobile threat detection platform Skycure, which has agreed to an acquisition by Symantec for a reported $250m.

Samsung's $150m 'frontier tech' fund has opened its first European office in Berlin, six months after initially launching.

Bloomberg Beta and Cisco Investments each made their third investment in the business risk intelligence software provider, which has now raised $43m in total.

The deep learning-based cybersecurity technology developer has received series B funding from investors including Nvidia.

Advance Venture Partners has led a funding round for cloud security company HyTrust, while existing shareholders Cisco, Intel, Fortinet and VMWare all returning.