Sectors

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.

The skincare product maker has agreed to pay $36.2m to acquire the customisable beauty supplement provider, having backed the company in 2019.

Mitsui, Edison Energy, BMW, Daimler, General Motors and Exelon-backed electric bus manufacturer Proterra achieved a $1.6bn enterprise value in the deal as special purpose acquisition companies take off in the sector.

Caltech spinout Talis Biomedical has raised more than $220m in an initial public offering on the Nasdaq Global Market.

Sector report: AI

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Anders had been one of the most active robotics and artificial intelligence investors while at iRobot.

Saudi Arabia-based group's corporate venture capital fund will invest in disruptive technologies and opportunities in the food and retail space.

Equip has raised $17m in total to make eating disorder treatment accessible.