Yiling Pharmaceuticals has paid $15m for a 23% stake in HealthWatch and another $5m for the Chinese distribution rights to its health-monitoring garment.

Unmanned vehicle-based delivery service Starship Technologies has raised $17.2m in a seed round led by Daimler, a strategic partner since September.

Oxford spinout Oxsonics and its sister company Orthoson have attracted $11.4m from backers including Oxford University.

SmarterHQ has received $13m in a round featuring existing backer Simon Property Group that brought its financing to more than $33m since it was founded.

The carmaker has paid $15m for a minority stake in CloudCar, and plans to use the company's automotive cloud services platform in its forthcoming electric model.

RA Capital Management and TPG Biotech provided the series A financing, as Shin Nippon Biomedical Laboratories spun out migraine treatment startup Satsuma Pharmaceuticals.

The voice analysis software producer has added $4.1m to the $15m it raised in November from backers including Salesforce Ventures.

MIT spinout Cogito has raised a $4m extension for its series B round, which achieved an initial $15m close in November 2016.

Home energy monitor developer Sense has closed its Shell-backed series A round at $15m after iRobot's corporate venturing unit provided $1m.

Precision medicine company Avidity Biosciences has received $10m in equity funding and $6m in converted debt from backers including Takeda and EMS.