Sectors

The PPD-backed clinical trial software provider increased its overall funding to $521m in a series D round valuing it at $2.1bn.

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

Taikang Life Insurance, GLP and Xiamen C&D were among the investors in a series D round for the industrial supplies marketplace.

Koch Industries and Harel Insurance and Finance helped the e-commerce fulfilment technology provider close a series C round that took its overall funding to $336m.

Baker Hughes, Qualcomm, Schneider Electric and Munich Re helped push the machine monitoring technology provider's valuation past $1bn.

The DNA printing technology received backing from investors including Merck Group, Illumina, Danaher and Agilent to hike its total funding to $280m.

Prosus took part in a round which reportedly boosted the agricultural services platform developer's valuation to $450m and its total funding pst $160m.

Chalo has acquired the corporate-backed shuttle bus aggregator, which had raised roughly $120m from investors including BCC, Amazon, Dentsu, Toyota, Sojitz, SIG and Compound Partners.

The Ntwrk and Cox Enterprises-backed lifestyle and media platform developer is joining forces with B Riley Principal 150 Merger Corp at an approximate valuation of $1bn.

Econos was among the LPs that have committed to the green search engine provider’s venture capital vehicle, which is set to reach a first close early next year.

HashKey Capital and CMT Digital both contributed to a round valuing the crypto token platform developer at $1.5bn.