Iris Dorbian

Splunk Inc has agreed to acquire Boulder, Colorado-based VictorOps, a real-time incident management platform, for about $120 million. The deal is expected to close during Splunk's fiscal second quarter. VictorOps is backed by Shea Ventures, Foundry Group and Costanoa Ventures.

Byton, a China-based developer of intelligent electric vehicles, has raised $500 million in Series B funding. The investors included FAW Group, Tus-Holdings and CATL.

Ann Arbor, Michigan-based Duo Security, a cybersecurity company, has named William Welch as president and chief operating officer. Welch's work background includes senior leadership roles at Zscaler, HP, Symantec and Oracle. Duo Security is backed by Meritech Capital Partners, Lead Edge Capital, Geodesic Capital, Index Ventures, Redpoint Ventures and True Ventures.

Firstminute Capital has raised $100 million for its seed fund, according to an announcement on its website. London-based Firstminute invests in European early-stage tech companies.

Boston and Berlin-based Caresyntax, a surgical data, analytics and automation company, has secured $31.9 million in funding. The investors were Norgine Ventures and Surgical.AI.

San Jose, California-based Cohesity, a provider of hyperconverged secondary storage, has raised $250 million in Series D funding round. SoftBank Vision Fund led the round with participation from other investors that included Cisco Investments, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Morgan Stanley Expansion Capital and Sequoia Capital.

Sensome, a French developer of micro-sensor technology for smart medical devices, has secured 4.6 million euros in financing. Kurma Partners led the round.

Rakuten has acquired Silicon Valley-based Curbside, a mobile ordering and pickup startup. according to a news announcement posted by Rakuten. No financial terms were disclosed. Curbside's backers include Sutter Hill Ventures, Index Ventures, AME Cloud Ventures and Qualcomm Ventures.

Bethesda, Maryland-based Lockheed Martin, a global security and aerospace company, has doubled its venture fund to $200 million. Lockheed Martin will focus the additional capital on early-stage companies in the areas of sensor technologies, autonomy, artificial intelligence and cyber.

MeiraGTx Holdings plc, a gene therapy company, has raised $75 million for its IPO after pricing its 5 million shares at $15 per share. The stock began trading June 8, 2018 on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol "MGTX." BofA Merrill Lynch, Barclays and Evercore ISI are the lead underwriters. MeiraGTx's pre-IPO backers include Essex Bio-Technology, according to Crunchbase.