Sectors

The data storage platform developer raised $21.4m in a round led by Cosco Shipping Development that will support recruitment and market expansion.

Optum Ventures helped the prescription fulfilment platform push its total funding to more than $39m, with the cash to fund product development.

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

VillageMD is set to receive a total of $1bn in equity and convertible debt financing from Walgreens Boots Alliance over the next three years, giving the corporate a 30% stake.

Continental Grain-backed Perfect Day has raised a further $160m for a round that increased the vegan dairy protein developer's overall funding to more than $360m.

Chalmers Ventures head of startups Stina Linge will leave on September 2 to head up Lipidor's animal health products unit Emollivet.

Lundbeckfonden Ventures took a board seat at Leiden spinout VarmX as part of a round that will fund development of a treatment for spontaneous bleeding.

Tesltra Ventures is exiting Kubernetes management platform developer Rancher in an acquisition reportedly sized at between $600m and $700m.

The cancer therapy developer boosted its overall funding to more than $200m in a round that included series A backer Takeda Ventures.

BP is set to invest $70m for the renewables-focused fund, which is managed by a joint venture of its Lightsource BP subsidiary and which has a target size of $700m.

Salesforce Ventures returned for a round that pushed the data backup technology developer's total funding past $100m and doubled its valuation.