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Rakuten is exiting the online reading platform developer in a $500m acquisition by online education provider Byju’s following $50m in funding.

AGC, JSR Life Sciences and Merck & Co all scored exits as the synthetic biology technology developer floated on Nasdaq, whose valuation reportedly stands at nearly $2bn.

Goldman Sachs' digital wealth management spinoff has six other banks as backers and has reached a WestCap-led first close of its series B round.

Takeda has returned to back the cancer therapeutics developer’s series D round after committing $120m in equity and milestone financing just over 18 months ago.

ChargePoint has agreed to pay $294m to acquire the EV charging station management platform, two years after the latter secured an undisclosed amount from Volkswagen.

Our data suggest that valuations in the HR tech space are picking up. Two deals stories from last week confirm the trend.

Branding services provider Tailor Brands raised $50m in a GoDaddy-led series C round while Orix is set to exit hiring software developer PandoLogic in a $150m acquisition.

UC Berkeley’s cancer therapy developer priced a $304m initial public offering at the top of its range.

The NFT marketplace, which counts Stanford-StartX Fund as an investor, has raised series B funding led by Andreessen Horowitz.

Yale University is in line to exit proteomics platform developer IsoPlexis in a Nasdaq Global Market offering with a $100m placeholder target.

The SoftBank-backed e-commerce services platform developer listed on the New York Stock Exchange, pricing the shares above their range.