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The Global and China L4 Autonomous Driving and Start-ups Report, 2021, found that except for a few companies, such as Waymo and Uber, which performed worse than expected, level four (L4) autonomous driving firms in other fields gained momentum.

Hikma led a $15m extension to surgical robotics developer Activ Surgical's series B round, now sized at $60m, while data collaboration software provider Hex raised $52m from investors including Snowflake and Databricks.

Animoca Brands, FTX, Adidas, Alphabet, MoonPay, Genies, Samsung and The Sandbox all took part in the the NFT platform developer's seed round at a $4bn valuation.

The corporate card provider was valued at $2.1bn in a round led by Tencent that increased its funding to $380m altogether.

Leaps by Bayer co-led an oversubscribed round for the oncology therapeutics developer, with the proceeds to go to clinical trials and supplementary licences.

Tencent co-led the cross-border human resources provider’s latest round, which included pre-series B funding raised in the second half of 2021.

The chipmaker's Snapdragon Metaverse Fund will provide equity financing and grants for metaverse and extended reality technology startups.

Vicco, Mankind Pharma and Bennett Coleman and Co contributed to the study support service's latest round at a $120m valuation.

The cybersecurity testing software producer's series B round was co-led by Koch Disruptive Technologies and pushed its overall funding to approximately $36m.

The deep tech venture fund linked to Imec has raised $166m for its second fund, more than halfway to its $277m target.

Digital asset exchange Zipmex increased its corporate-backed series B round to over $51m while Digital Garage-backed 1plusX in a $150m acquisition.