Xiaomi invested $5.8m in social networking app developer ShareChat as part of an $18.2m round that took the startup's overall funding to almost $24m.

Porsche, GM Ventures and Siemens Next47 have helped provide $13.5m that will help commercialise Seurat Technologies' metal printing technology.

SIG Asia was among the investors as enterprise device authentification technology provider Trusfort raised $18.6m.

The neurogenerative disease diagnostics technology developer has secured $11.1m in a ShangPharma and TaiAn Technologies-backed round.

Real estate developer Embassy Group has provided $15.7m for WeWork India, a spinoff of co-working space provider WeWork.

The cell sorting technology developer has become the first company to be backed by the University of California Riverside-focused VC vehicle Highlander Venture Fund.

Industrial and commercial drone developer Autonomous Control Systems Laboratory raised $18.8m in a round that featured University of Tokyo Edge Capital.

New World Development subsidiary K11 has backed avatar development platform Oben, which counts Tencent, SoftBank and Dunan as backers.

Industrial cybersecurity software developer Nozomi Networks will use the proceeds from the Invenergy-led series A round to strengthen its sales and marketing.