Sectors

Sony and Lego owner Kirkbi each supplied $1bn in funding for the video game publisher and technology provider, valuing it at $31.5bn.

Repsol led the waste-to-biofuel technology provider’s largest round in four years and plans to collaborate with it on Iberian projects.

GV returned for the brain scanning technology provider’s series D round at a $1.2bn valuation, boosting its overall funding to about $250m.

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 oncology analytics software developer received a top-up from investors including NEC Corporation at a unicorn valuation.

SoftBank Vision Fund 2 co-led a $150m round to allow the metaverse technology developer to push its overall funding past $750m.

Pfizer Ventures was among the investors in Triana’s series A round and has taken a board seat at the molecular glue platform developer.

The Takeda spinoff is developing a vaccine for acute gastroenteritis caused by norovirus infection, and raised about $140m in August 2021.

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.