Chicago-based Tempus, which uses AI for drug discovery, clinical trials, and diagnostics, raised $275M in equity and debt, bringing its total funding to $1.3B+ (Keerthi Vedantam/Crunchbase News)

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Toronto-based TouchBistro, which offers payments tools for restaurants globally, raised CA$150M led by Francisco Partners, bringing its funding to ~CA$433M  —  TouchBistro, a restaurant point-of-sale system, announced on Tuesday it nabbed $110 million (CAD $150 million) …

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Agriconomie, an e-commerce store for European farmers to order agricultural supplies such as fertilizers and animal feed, has raised a $60.4M Series B  —  The Amazon of agriculture is here.  —  Agriconomie, a France-based agtech e-commerce company, announced on Tuesday it raised 60 million euros …

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Atlanta-based ConnexPay, which integrates incoming user payments with supplier payments in one platform, raised $110M from FTV Capital for European expansion  —  Fintech platform ConnexPay announced on Tuesday it received $110 million in growth investment led by FTV Capital to expand the company beyond the U.S. and into Europe.

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Paris-based Aqemia, which aims to scale drug discovery by combining quantum physics algorithms and AI, has raised a €30M Series A  —  Pharmatech startup Aqemia has just raised €30 million in a new funding round.  The Parisian startup is generating a pioneering drug discovery pipeline …

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Analysis: 17 VC-backed Chinese companies that went public on Nasdaq and NYSE in the past 2 years have seen a ~91% average decline in their post-IPO stock price  —  Even before this past week, shares of China-based companies that went public on U.S. exchanges in recent years were performing terribly overall.

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Minneapolis-based NetSPI, which offers penetration testing and attack surface management services, raised $410M from KKR, bringing its total funding to $500M  —  Although venture funding in cybersecurity has taken a slight dip this year—as it has in most sectors—that does not mean large growth rounds do not exist.