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Several corporate venture investors participated in a round which took the crypto IoT network developer's valuation to $1.2bn. The round and the company are part of the larger crypto tech space, which has been attracting much interest and capital in most recent times.

BMW and Ralph Lauren contributed to an $85m round for sustainable materials provider Natural Fiber Welding while Credit Saison invested $80m in virtual credit card service Julo.

Direct Line and Sistema are exiting Five, a developer of self-driving software testing technology, in a deal intended to give Robert Bosch an end-to-end autonomous driving technology offering.

Decentralised finance technology developer BloXroute raised $70m in a round led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2 while Ackermans & van Haaren helped digital health technology developer Medikabazaar score a $700m valuation.

Recombinant protein technology provider Healthgen netted over $87m while shared living space provider Hmlet is buying corporate-backed peer Habyt and Uniswap Labs is launching an investment vehicle.

The latest round raised by Everli and backed by Pernod Ricard was boosted by just over $24m from United Ventures, taking the grocery delivery service's overall funding to over $143m.

Mitsui took part in oncology therapy developer Ensem Therapeutics' $67m series A round while Bioventus is paying up to $450m to buy the rest of portfolio company CartiHeal.

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Sector report: healthcare

Quantum computing technology provider Horizon Quantum Computing raised $12m from Tencent while identity verification technology developer Tru.id hiked an NHN-backed round to $9m.

Several corporates backed the blockchain technology developer in its latest round, boosting its valuation to $1bn. Valuations of blockchain tech companies have soared along with the interest in speculative assets classes inherently linked to the blockchain in recent times.