Sectors

Lyell Immunopharma was joined by new corporate backers Lilly Asia Ventures Biosciences and Alexandria Venture Investments to bring Sonoma’s series A round to $70m.

The insurer has put $54m into a corporate venturing arm called SwissHealth Ventures to target digital health startups.

Three Pulsalys businesses in healthcare and consumer feature in the first intake, run in partnership with local incubator Les Premières Aura.

Zhejiang University-backed optical chip maker XY Technology will put the series B cash to strengthening its capacity and product.

DMG Ventures has contributed to a $308m funding round that increased Cazoo’s overall funding to some $558m and its valuation to more than $2.5bn.

Sompo, Fujitsu and Relx-backed Palantir went public yesterday and fetched a $20.6bn valuation – only marginally above the $20.3bn it was worth in 2015.

Barclays, Citi, HSBC and National Australia Bank have provided a $20m extension, joining a round already backed by CreditEase and American Express Ventures.

Caloga-backed Sendinblue has added $160m to its coffers thanks to investors including Bpifrance and BlackRock.

Nanjing SemiDrive lured the return of Lenovo Capital in a round that will help enhance its semiconductors for autonomous and connected vehicles.

Tencent and Bertelsmann Asia Investments have both backed the home fitness company, which will soon launch a smart display screen for its workouts.

The Biohaven spinoff has picked up $60m in its series A round as it expects to increase its headcount tenfold.