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The metaverse technology developer has now pushed its overall funding past $750m since emerging out of Cambridge’s Department of Computer Science and Technology.

Burda Principal Investments was among the participants that backed the virtual private network provider at a $1.6bn valuation.

Creo Capital and Legend Capital helped energy storage system developer MS Energy raise an eight-digit sum while Truora and Medfin each received $15m in corporate-backed rounds.

Jodi Olson has reportedly left Alphabet’s early-stage investment arm, where she had been a communications and marketing partner for roughly a decade.

The latest round raised by Everli and backed by Pernod Ricard was boosted by just over $24m from United Ventures, taking the grocery delivery service's overall funding to over $143m.

Wipro and Intel backed customer experience platform developer Lilt's $55m series C while Pfizer is buying corporate-backed respiratory virus therapeutic developer ReViral for up to $525m.

SoftBank Vision Fund 2 co-led the virtual avatar infrastructure builder’s $110m series C round, which emerged alongside a $20m series B featuring new and returning investors.

Mitsui took part in oncology therapy developer Ensem Therapeutics' $67m series A round while Bioventus is paying up to $450m to buy the rest of portfolio company CartiHeal.

Prologis Ventures has returned to back the Associated Press, Samsung Next and Workday Ventures-backed business data software developer’s latest round, hiking its funding to over $132m in total.

The Global University Venturing deal net rounds up the smaller investments from across the university innovation ecosystem.

Crypto.com, Huobi and BitMart invested in cryptocurrency scaling technology developer Boba Network at a $1.5bn valuation while natural fibre composite provider Bcomp netted $34.9m in a BMW-led round.