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The Coinbase Ventures-backed fraud prevention tool developer has secured the fresh round that boosted its total funding to over $48m.

Stratasys spinoff Evolve Additive Solutions secured $30m from 3D Ventures while CollegeDekho - spun off by GirnarSoft - raised $26.5m.

Keio’s synthetic silk producer increased its valuation to over $1.2bn in a round led by Carlyle Japan Partners.

Harvard spinout Emulate will use the cash to further develop its organ-on-a-chip technology, having now raised nearly $225m in total.

Q&A with William Taranto, president, Merck Global Health Innovation (GHI) Fund, and vice-president, Merck Global Health Innovation Group

The carmaker intends to allocate $356m to the vehicle, which will invest in early-stage companies in addition to decarbonisation schemes.

Parkwalk Advisors and Cambridge Innovation Capital have backed the pet antibody therapeutics developer, a spinout of Wellcome Sanger Institute.

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign’s cost management platform developer has increased its valuation to $280m in its most recent round.

SoftBank Vision Fund and SAEV - both existing investors in the enrgy storage technology developer - contributed to a $100m PIPE financing supporting the deal.

Stryker has bought the surgery monitoring software provider, which was backed by Stanford-StartX Fund.

Networking and cybersecurity technology provider Aviatrix was valued at $2bn through a series E round backed by existing investor Liberty Global Ventures.