Returning investor Dongfeng Motor joined an Alibaba-run fund in autonomous fleet developer AutoX's latest round, which will fund the addition of extra vehicles to its offering.

Furniture-focused e-commerce marketplace MadeiraMadeira has secured funding in a round led by SoftBank's Latin America fund that will support hiring, logistics and technology improvements.

TCV has led a $200m round for online pharmacy Capsule, increasing the Virgin-backed company's total funding to $270m.

September started out with news on several life sciences companies about to go public as well as a large acquisition deal of another one of them. This space enjoyed a great number of exits last year and the trend appears on a path to be continued through 2019.

Trifacta, co-founded by Stanford and UC Berkeley researchers, has attracted nearly a dozen investors for a round that brought its total funding to $224m.

Telstra, NTT Docomo, BMW, Google, Infosys and ABN Amro were among nearly a dozen investors that helped bring the data sorting platform's overall funding to $224m.

SK E&S, Invenergy and Schneider Electric helpeed add $20m to the latest round for EV charging network Volta Charging, which includes a $44m debt facility.

The electric truck and SUV developer has received $350m from Cox Automotive in return for a 10% stake in the Ford, Amazon and Sumitomo-backed company.

Consumer goods portal Zhuan Zhuan will bolster its coffers with funding from controlling shareholder 58.com and existing investor Tencent.

Huimin, an online goods and services portal targeting community-sized retailers, has now raised some $520m altogether having been backed by Fosun Capital in its latest round.