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Cancer diagnostics tech developer Freenome cashed in an additional $290m from returning investor Roche, which will support it as it looks to expand its products to additional cancers.

UK-based sales software providers Highspot and Cognism both scored funding in late-stage rounds, with Salesforce Ventures, Axa Venture Partners and Swisscom Ventures among the investors.

OSF HealthCare’s corporate venturing unit inaugurated its largest fund to date, following the close of $75m funds in 2016 and 2019.

GCV Emerging Leader William Zhao and Rising Star Will Wang have ascended to partner positions at BAI while legal and corporate communications director Christine Sun has been appointed COO.

Every day, Global University Venturing rounds up investments from across the university innovation ecosystem in its deal net.

The corporate's ongoing Latin American portfolio has grown after it led pet product retailer Laika's $48m series B round and a $40m round for rural finance provider TerraMagna.

Animoca Brands, Delphi Digital and Verizon are helping FCF bring audience participation into live sports through the blockchain.

SoftBank led 5G chip developer Eigencomm's $157m series C round while smart bank Seba Bank raised $120m in its own series C, which included Alameda Research.

The $43.7m ME Innovation Fund is part of a $100m corporate venturing initiative revealed by the electrical product provider in mid-2020 and will invest in digital and green energy companies.

Tencent led a nine-figure round valuing the hospitality software provider at $1.25bn as the industry’s digitalisation gathers pace.

Q&A with Stéphane Longuet, co-founder and managing partner, Convivialité Ventures