Sectors

Natural Products Canada has signed up a prospective anchor investor for its newly formed corporate venturing fund, which has a $39.5m target for its close.

Reza Halse will be a partner at RA Capital, which held a first and final closing of its second venture fund in October. 

GV and Salesforce Ventures joined existing investor Citi in a $45m round for the financial application development platform.

Cloud cybersecurity software provider CipherCloud had raised more than $80m pre-acquisition from backers such as Transamerica and Deutsche Telekom.

SoftBank-backed Volpe has reached an $80m first close of its inaugural fund and made its first deal by investing in Uol Edtech.

The insurance comparison platform developer has added Jungle Ventures funding to cash from investors including American Family and MassMutual.

Medici Living Group has exited co-living spinoff Quarters through a purchase by Habyt, shortly after shutting the brand’s US operations earlier this year.

Stripe has returned to reinvest in the customer support software developer through a $16.6m round, having previously led its seed funding.

The Sioux Technologies-backed solar-powered vehicle developer has secured new funding as it prepares to complete the first deliveries of its cars later this year.

The digital payment software producer more than doubled its valuation in a round that included new corporate investors Axa and Allianz X.

The artificial intelligence technology provider is set to raise up to $923m in an initial public offering that would score exits for Alibaba, Foxconn, Legend Holdings and SK Group.