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Salesforce-backed lending software producer Blend has raised more than $685m in funding and hit a $3.3bn valuation in its last funding round five months ago.

Lilly Asia Ventures and Baidu Ventures helped the drug discovery software provider push its overall funding past the $310m mark.

SoftBank Vision Fund 2 and Tencent have taken part in a series C round valuing video tutoring marketplace GoStudent at $1.7bn.

The freight management platform developer was valued at $1.2bn in a round led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2 and backed by Citi Ventures and Inven Capital.

Bayer and Fujifilm scored exits as the cancer treatment developer floated on the Nasdaq Global Select Market at the top of its range.

Crypto financial services firm Amber has followed a Coinbase and Blockchain.com-backed series A round by adding $100m in series B funding.

The Alphabet subsidiary invested $25m to lead a round for the musical education app developer that was also backed by Hearst Ventures and Qualcomm Ventures.

The cardiovascular data technology developer has launched with $54m in funding, $43m coming from a Cigna Ventures-backed series B round.

USAA has made an anchor commitment to the military graduate investment network’s first fund, which is targeting $50m for its final close.

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

Tencent, Credit Saison and JG Summit have all contributed to a $16m round for GrowSari while Greenvolt is set to acquire up to 29% of solar system installer Perfecta Energía.