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Liberty Mutual, Copec, National Grid, Evergy, Centrica and Avista all contributed to a round taking the solar maintenance technology developer's total funding to at least $53m.

ZestMoney is looking to increase consumer lending in India with new funding from Australia-based market peer Zip.

Citi Impact Fund has added Daylight, Flume, Jetty, Lacuna, Pathstream, Recycle Track Systems and Stackshare to its portfolio following a cohort of five companies revealed three months before.

UOB Venture Management led a $30m round for social commerce platform developer Evermos while Advanced Farm Technologies and Nex each bagged $25m.

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

The IPO price will give the GV-backed restaurant management software provider a market capitalisation of about $20bn at the time of its $870m flotation.

SoftBank and Sea took part in a round that pushed the used car marketplace's valuation to $8.7bn, and its overall funding to near $1.6bn.

Barclays Bank has re-upped its commitment to the invoice finance lender in an equity and debt round two years after co-leading its series B with Santander InnoVentures.

Legend Star was among the investors that backed the warehouse robot developer’ series D round, disclosed alongside its series C funding.

Blockchain infrastructure platform Blockdaemon was valued at $1.26bn in a series B round led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2.

Sanofi, Axa, Aviva, Pro BTP and CNP Assurances were among the backers of the vehicle, which will focus on biotech investments.