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Rising Stars Q&A – Banafsheh “B” Fathieh, head of investments for the Americas, Prosus Ventures

Actor and producer Robert Downey Jr, best known of late for his role as Tony “Iron Man” Stark, in June 2019 at Amazon’s Re:MARS conference, said that “between robotics and nanotechnology, we could clean up the planet significantly, if not totally, in 10 years.”

The round consisted of a primary and secondary transaction and the latter allowed Xiaomi to fully exit the company and Kunlun to reduce its shareholding.

Ascletis Pharma has returned for an $80m round that will fund the further clinical development of a potential treatment for non-alcoholic steatohepatitis symptoms.

The edtech-focused firm has raised $165m from limited partners including Sesame Workshop, Kaiser Foundation Hospitals and National Geographic Society.

Stellantis, EDF, Mainova, RATP, Total, Duisport and Sansiri are among the investors committed to Eurazeo’s second smart city fund.

Insight Partners returned to lead a $53m round fo the Vensure Enterprises and Home Credit Group-backed financial services technology developer.

Globalstar owner Thermo Companies and Fidelity have participated in the 5G infrastructure technology developer’s series C round.

The Coinbase-backed blockchain payment platform provider has secured $20m from investors as it unveils a remittance and peer-to-peer payments mobile app.

The $9.5m investment vehicle will be run by Opt unit Bonds Investment Group for up to 13 years, targeting local entrepreneurs.

Asahi Shimbun, Dentsu and Zoshinkai are set to exit the notebook-sharing platform operator in an acquisition of undisclosed size by office products supplier Kokuyo.