Sectors

Khosla Ventures led a series A round for WndrCo-backed skills training platform developer Statespace that will help it grow headcount.

Swisscom Ventures has exited invoice financing services provider Advanon in an acquisition of undisclosed size by peer Creditgate24.

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

Truework, which provides software to run employment and income background checks, secured the return of Sequoia Capital and Khosla Ventures to bring its total to $45m.

The investment bank is establishing a corporate venturing unit that will invest $10m to $20m per deal in financial technology developers.

The Tencent and Lenovo-backed grocery e-commerce platform has closed its latest round, shortly after reports suggesting it was lining up $500m.

Illumina and Amgen-backed genomic sequencing technology developer Oxford Nanopore has added $59.6m to a round that now totals $98.1m.

OCD drug developer Exscientia bagged $60m in a Novo-led round that also featured Bristol-Myers Squibb and existing corporate investor Evotec.

Xiaomi has invested about $103m in a cash-and-shares deal that involved it increasing its stake in the power bank provider to almost 50%.

Optum Ventures was among the investors as the mental health management app developer lifted its funding to $145m altogether.

Novo has led a $60m series C round for University of Dundee’s Exscientia that also attracted Evotec, Bristol-Myers Squibb, and GT Healthcare Capital.