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The oil refinery operator has chipped into the Emerald Industrial Innovation Fund, already backed by Caterpillar, Chevron, GC, Henkel and DIC.

Huike Group's IT education spinoff has secured $79.7m from Gaorong Capital and GL Ventures seven years after it was launched.

Customer identity analytics provider Socure collected Citi Ventures and Wells Fargo Strategic Capital in a round that boosted its total funding to $96m.

M12, ServiceNow, Atlassian and Comcast Ventures all contributed to bring feature flagging deployment platform Split's overall funding to $60m.

Alibaba has paid a nine-figure renminbi amount for a stake in its strategic partner Helijia, which markets beauty services to consumers through a mobile app.

Salesforce Ventures contributed to an $11.5m round that will fund the addition of more features to Acto's mobile drug information platform.

Cancer and fibrosis therapy developer Forbius has agreed to be acquired by Bristol Myers Squibb nine years after it was spun off by YM BioSciences.

The CRM software producer formerly known as Xiaoman has raised a nine-figure renminbi amount from strategic investor Alibaba.

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

Bill Gates has returned to lead an $85m round for satellite internet provider Kymeta, which has now raised more than $280m since it was set up to advance Duke University research.

The Alibaba, Xiaomi, Foxconn, UCar and Duowan-backed smart electric carmaker has floated in the US through an offering valuing it in excess of $21bn.