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Opioid addiction care provider Groups Recover Together and healthcare management platform developer Vim each raised $60m, with Optum Ventures backing both rounds.

A decade or more after setting up the golden age of corporate venturing units were set up with a focus on life sciences and healthcare, such as US-listed conglomerate Alphabet’s GV (formerly known as Google Ventures) and US-listed drugs company Merck’s Global Health Innovation Fund (GHIF), and the returns have surpassed many expectations.

GV is set to exit educational software portal developer Clever in a purchase by Kahoot set to be sized between $435m and $500m.

Citi Ventures has returned to help the administrative support marketplace hike its valuation to over $1bn in a series D round led by Durable Capital Partners.

The Lennar-backed accommodation provider will take a Nasdaq listing having previously raised $530m, and was valued at $1.3bn as of June 2020.

Shapeways is another company from the 3D printing space, which has gone public through a reverse merger, after its peer Desktop Metal in 2020. The additive manufacturing space has seen a somewhat modest interest from corporate investors in the past decade.

JD.com's logistics spinoff, which counts China Life and Tencent as investors, has received approval for an offering set to be between $3bn and $4bn in size.

Salesforce Ventures has chipped into the online learning platform’s latest round, bringing its overall funding to about $150m.

Rakuten took part in a $37m round for virtual kitchen operator Taster while Nano Dimension is buying M12-backed 3D microprinter developer NanoFabrica for up to $54.9m.

The marketing group’s $92.2m vehicle is set to operate for 10 years and strengthen its presence in the Japanese startup ecosystem.