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The bioengineered materials producer hiked its overall funding to $54m in a series B round featuring Wilbur-Ellis unit Cavallo Ventures.

BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group and Citi were among the participants in a round that will fund hiring, as Icon prepares to expand its portfolio of 3D-printed homes.

The Alibaba-backed meal preparation brand has secured capital in a Talis Capital-led round that increased its funding to $65m to date.

Pachyderm, the developer of a machine learning data platform, increased its overall funding to $28m in a series B round led by Microsoft's coroporate venturing arm.

Tsinghua-backed Rokae is working on lightweight robots with a wide range of applications and has now raised $43.5m altogether.

GI Windows Medical plans to put the $16.4m from the Johnson & Johnson Innovation – JJDC-backed round into clinical validation of its anastomotic endoscopy device.

Alphabet, Salesforce and Twilio have exited the peer-to-peer messaging platform, which has been purchased by another of its investors, Social Capital.

Suzhou HYC Technology participated in a $15.9m round for the smart manufacturing technology provider, which counts CAS Star as an early backer.

Italian tech transfer fund Eureka has attracted an initial $44.9m from LPs including Umbra Group and Saes Group to invest in engineering and materials spinouts.

Alphabet-backed short-term accommodation portal Airbnb has confidentially filed to go public, having raised money at a $26bn valuation in April.

Eli Lilly and WuXi Biologics-backed biologics developer Inhibrx floated at the midpoint of its range having previously raised $135m in debt and equity financing.