Sectors

Immune cell mapping technology developer Immunai has emerged from stealth to commercialise inventions from Stanford and PICI labs.

Customer communications technology provider Kustomer has acquired chatbot developer Reply, handing exits to Aflac, R/GA and Westfield.

Haier Financial Holdings has backed a $254m funding round for CloudWalk, a spinout of Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Haier Financial Holdings has backed a $254m funding round for CloudWalk, a spinout of Chinese Academy of Sciences whose shareholders also include Bohai Capital and PCI-Suntek Technology.

Intel Capital has invested at least $132m in 12 companies so far this year and is on its way to putting between $300m and $500m into startups by the end of 2020.

CyberArk has bought zero-trust identity management platform Idaptive for $70m in cash, two years after it was spun out from Centrify.

CapitalG has led a $50m series D round for Expel, bringing the cybersecurity technology developer’s total financing to more than $117m in four years.

The Harvard motor neurone disease drug developer secured Mitsui, Sanford Biosciences and existing backer Amgen Ventures for its series A round.

M12 has co-led a $30m series B round that also featured existing shareholder Comcast Ventures and will allow FortressIQ to help clients navigate the current economic climate.

Axa Venture Partners has swung behind Zenjob for a $30m series C round that will enable the recruitment platform to build out its market share in Germany.

Dai-ichi Life Insurance, Essential Pharma and Medi-Future were among the investors in a round that brought the pre-clinical drug developer's funding haul to $33.1m.