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Grifols agreed the deal five years after supplying $50m in equity and development financing for the neurodegenerative disease therapy developer.

American Express Ventures has been named as an investor in business payment platform developer Melio, which just closed an $80m round that hiked its overall funding to $144m.

Checkout.com made its first investment in the cross-border payment platform as part of a round that will fund its expansion in emerging markets.

The single-cell diagnostics technology provider closed a series A round led by Lilly Asia Ventures that also featured Tencent.

Japan Post Investment Corporation and Astellas Venture Management backed a series C round that will fund preclinical and clincical trials of the company's radiotherapy system.

Francisco Sánchez Rivas has joined the board of the communications and public affairs consultancy with a mandate to drive strategic investments and acquisitions.

The corporate returned to provide $55.1m for Carvolution having previously invested in the flexible car rental service in November.

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

Boston Scientific owns more than 30% of the emphysema treatment device developer, which is targeting $86.3m in its offering.

Backed by Research Institute of Tsinghua University in Shenzhen, CoWin Biosciences supplies biological reagents for diagnostics and research applications.

Digital marketing platform developer Optimizely has agreed to be bought after raising $200m from investors including Citi, Salesforce, Accenture and Alphabet.