This Week's Deals

Online used car retailer Vroom raised $254 million. Vroom develops an online direct-to-consumer platform that offers low-mileage reconditioned vehicles, with the added option of financing the acquisition through Vroom's lending partners. Read more

Peregrine Ventures raised fourth $115 million fund. The Israeli medtech venture firm now has more than $200 million under management. Read more Website usability company WalkMe raised $90 million. WalkMe adds a layer of on-screen guidance prompts on top of existing websites, helping users navigate through web pages. Read more  

Newly merged Healthymize and Beyond Verbal raised $9 million. The new entity, Vocalis Health, will develop technology for voice-based analysis and detection of health issues such as depression and heart and respiratory conditions. Read more

Cloud security startup Rezilion completed an $8 million seed round. Rezilion develops a cloud workload protection service that integrates with existing DevOps and IT automation workflows and identifies unused vulnerable code in production, allowing DevOps teams to easily remove it. Read more

Online payment company Payoneer acquired German payment company Optile. Operating in complience to the American standard, Israel-based Payoneer provides online money transfer and digital payment services. Read more

DuPont agreed to acquire Israeli desalination company Desalitech. The New York-listed chemicals company did not disclose the financial terms of the deal. Read more

Israel-based software testing company Qualitest purchased machine learning company AlgoTrace. Qualitest provides automated and manual software testing services for companies including Google, Microsoft, and Intel. Read more