Sectors

China Communications Construction has backed the enterprise cybersecurity insurance provider’s $15.5m round, as did Nio Future Capital.

The vertical farming system developer has completed a $26m round that included KT&G and E1, with the cash to go to international expansion.

Sesame Ventures helped lazy eye treatment developer Luminopia raise $12m while UPS, Qualcomm and Mercado Libre exited courier marketplace Mandaê in a purchase by Nuvemshop.

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

Amazon, Ford, Cox Enterprises and Abdul Latif Jameel each own stakes in the electric vehicle maker sized at 5% or higher, as it targets a reported $80bn valuation in the offering.

SoftBank invested $125m through a $160m private placement as portfolio company and cancer drug developer Exscientia went public in an offering sized at nearly $305m.

Salesforce Ventures and Atlassian Ventures topped up the cybersecurity software provider’s latest round with $75m in funding at an $8.6bn valuation.

The multicorporate-backed operator of a keyless lock app called Akerun will list on the TSE’s Mothers Market next month in an IPO set to value it at $204m.

The Fosun-backed ophthalmology equipment provider raised cash that will go to research, recruitment and commercialisation activities.

The data analytics APU provider has exited stealth mode and disclosed $70m in seed and series A funding, the latter round co-led by Koch Disruptive Technologies.

Boehringer Ingelheim Venture Fund and Pierre Fabre have made capital commitments to Advent France Biotechnology’s second fund.