Sectors

The FedEx and SoftBank-backed shipping service provider’s offering, set to take place early next year, will reportedly value it between $5.5bn and $6bn.

SoftBank’s Vision Fund 2 and Latin America Fund co-led a secondary round for the blockchain-focused investment group at a $10bn valuation, participating with fellow corporate Alphabet’s CapitalG unit.

Walden Catalyst Ventures, co-founded by several alumni of Samsung's corporate venturing programme, has closed its inaugural fund.

The Amazon, Carrier, AGL Energy and Just Energy-backed smart thermostat producer is set to be taken over by Generac Holdings in a deal that could reach $770m.

The Emtek-owned video streaming platform developer received its first external investment, at a post-money valuation of $900m.

BMW, Continental, Knorr-Bremse and VinFast backed the autonomous perception technology developer in a round which will accelerate its expansion into new markets.

The mobile payment app developer has expanded an Experian-backed round with a $10m extension, taking its total funding to approximately $110m.

The public relations group’s newly formed VSC Ventures unit has raised $7m from undisclosed limited partners and will target climatetech startups.

Norgine, Axa and Debiopharm are in line for exits as the breast cancer diagnostics test provider is aiming to go public to boost research and development and commercial activities.

Existing investor Lennar returned to back the modular homebuilder in a round led by Gigafund, bringing its overall funding to over $71m.

SoftBank’s Vision Fund 2 led a $59.7m round which will support Aculys in bringing a sleep disorder medication it has licensed to Japan.