Existing backers Legal and General Capital and Statoil Energy Ventures have returned for an $11.2m round that took Oxford PV's total financing to $77m.

Podcast platform Castbox took its total funding to almost $30m with a $13.5m round that included returning investor SIG China.

Wuxi AppTec Corporate Ventures has participated in a round that will support development of NuProbe's molecular blood test.

The beauty retailer added $11.2m to a round now sized at $25.5m, on the heels of 2016 investments from Max Group and TCL.

Osage University Partners was among the backers in Numat, which is developing molecularly engineered products based on research at Northwestern University.

The automotive sensor developer secured funding in an Aviva Ventures-led round that included SAIC Capital and Flex.

ICI Ishii Sports led a $10.9m round for the mountaineering community app developer that also featured Morinaga and Company, Japan Asia Group, SRL and several banks.

Parsley Health added Chernin Group to its investors in a series A round that will fund hiring as the healthcare services provider prepares to expand.

Optum Ventures co-led a $13.8m round for the online health consultancy portal that included Centene and Heritage Medical Systems.

Lung disease therapy developer Airway Therapeutics, a Cincinnati Children's Hospital spinoff, has now raised more than $22m in total.