Sectors

The online beauty brand marketplace backed by reached a $1.2bn valuation in a series D round co-led by Prosus Ventures.

The Tegan and Circle K-backed mobile lottery ticket platform developer secured series D capital from investors including the Panasonic-financed Conductive Ventures.

Alexandria Venture Investments was among the participants in a series B round which will support clinical trials for Acrivon's lead oncology drug candidate.

Solana and FTX are among the founding partners of the fund, which will focus on blockchain-based gaming investments.

The venture firm has hired Jayson Punwani a year after he left his partner position at corporate venturing unit Takeda Ventures.

Existing investors Lilly Asia Ventures and SBCVC returned for the multiomics product developer's latest round, in which it raised nearly $100m.

Dapper Labs, Solana and Tron are among the LPs in the venture firm’s latest fund, which has already backed Rain, Vauld, Lemon Cash, Tulip Protocol and Zebedee.

Cybersecurity platform developer SafeBreach and home improvement technology provider Block Renovation each raised $50m or over in corporate-led rounds.

UTEC is celebrating an exit as Agara is acquired by Coinbase for a reported $40m to $50m.

Johns Hopkins spinout Blade Therapeutics has agreed to a reverse merger that will net it $24.3m in Pipe financing from backers including Osage University Partners.