Nektar.ai, a B2B productivity startup, has raised an additional $6 million seed funding round led by B Capital Group, 3One4 Capital, and Nexus Venture Partners. Several well-known Go To Market players in the US-Asia cross-border SaaS ecosystem took part in the round.

McAfee Enterprise has announced the launch of MVISION Private Access, an integrated strategy for granular ‘Zero Trust’ access and extending data and threat security capabilities to private apps hosted across hybrid IT environments.

Baxter International Inc., a global medical products firm, is partnering with Amazon Web Services (AWS). As part of a company-wide push to increase cloud usage, Baxter has extended its multi-year strategic partnership with Amazon Web Services.

Bridgestone Americas enters a definitive agreement to purchase Azuga Holdings for $391M from shareholders to strengthen its Silicon Valley presence and accelerate its progress towards delivering sustainable tire-centric and mobility solutions.

Salesforce announced a definitive acquisition agreement with Servicetrace (financials undisclosed) to integrate it with a previously acquired company, MuleSoft. The transaction would close this October and the new Robotics Process Automation (RPA) capabilities of Servicetrace would enhance Salesforce’s Einstein Automate solution and enable end-to-end workflow automation.

Nozomi Networks has announced a $100M in Series D and a pre-IPO funding round led by Triangle Peak Partners. It states that this has been a year of record growth, topping a 110 percent increase in annual recurring revenue and a two-fold increase in customer base.

Cloud identity solutions provider Saviynt has announced that its risk analytics, identity governance and other technologies would now be available as a managed service via Deloitte’s Identity+ Platform as it expands its strategic partnership with the latter to offer cloud identity solutions to enterprises.

Square, a payments software firm, has bought Afterpay, an Australian “buy now, pay later” (BNPL) startup, for $29 million. Square’s existing Seller and Cash App business divisions will be linked with Afterpay, allowing even the “smallest of businesses” to accept BNPL.

Germany’s Mambu has unveiled an all-digital product for small and medium enterprises (SME) to help them cut down costs and time to market. It states that the pressure on SME lenders to offer an all-digital customer experience has increased today, driving the need for the new decision.

Odoo, an open-source all-in-one business software, has announced that it has raised $ 215 million from Summit Partners, a growth equity investor. Odoo is one of the most popular company management software systems globally, with over 7 million users.

MoEngage, a provider of AI-leveraged and cloud-based customer engagement platform, has recently announced a fresh fundraise of $32.5 million in a Series C1 funding round led by Multiples Alternate Asset Management.