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Daily Deal Round Up: April 27, 2022
Corporate-backed medical imaging technology producer Lunit is preparing to float in South Korea while cancer drug developer Pheast secured $76m from investors including Alexandria Venture Investments.
MassMutual Ventures assembles $300m fund
Massachusetts Mutual Life’s venture capital arm has formed a fourth fund, which will concentrate on European and Asia-Pacific investments.
Biofourmis takes care with $300m series D
CVS Health joined returning backers that could include SoftBank Vision Fund 2, MassMutual Ventures, Jianke and Aviva in a round valuing the digital care service at $1.3bn.
Fu-Gen energises itself with $343m
Migdal and Menora Mivtachim helped supply the renewable energy infrastructure developer with fresh funding which will help expand its operations in the UK and Finland.
Harness pulls in $230m
ServiceNow, Capital One Ventures, Citi Ventures, Splunk Ventures and GV all contributed to the software deployment technology provider’s latest round, valuing it at $3.7bn.
Dingreville lands at BP Launchpad
Sophie Dingreville, formerly of Munich Re Ventures, has been appointed chief investment officer of BP’s digital technology accelerator.
Daily Deal Round Up: April 26, 2022
Yangtze River Pharmaceutical Group led Binhui Biopharm’s $47m series B-plus round while Sigfox has been snapped up by UnaBiz for under $30m after raising over $300m.
GemPharmatech gets $175m in initial public offering
The Sinopharm-backed laboratory animal model developer floated on Shanghai Stock Exchange’s Star Market two years after its last equity funding.
Kinexon connects to corporates to raise $130m
BMW i Ventures and Telekom Innovation Pool both invested in a series A round for the IoT system provider, which had developed dedicated technology products with their parent companies.
Daily Deal Round Up: April 25, 2022
Web3 security software producer Certik received $60m from investors including SoftBank Vision Fund 2 while corporate-backed automation technology provider Vicarious is being bought after raising over $250m.
Shanghai Shanshan secures $472m
BYD, CATL and PetroChina’s Kunlun Capital vehicle were among the investors in a round valuing the lithium-ion battery material producer at $1.5bn.