Oregon State University’s semiconductor production technology spinout Inpria has collected $31m in series C funding led by existing shareholder JSR Corporation.

Existing backer SoftBank returned to help the telecommunications data platform developer close a round co-led by four investors.

New investors PepsiCo, Maersk, Verizon and NTT Docomo joined existing backers including Avery Dennison, Amazon Web Services, Merck, Qualcomm and Samsung in the round.

Tencent participated in a $21.5m round for the IoT management software provider, which has now raised about $65m altogether.

Touch-based user interface developer UltraSense secured the cash in a Robert Bosch-led round with contributions from Asahi Kasei and Sony.

Insurance underwriting software business Concirrus raised capital to fund product enhancements and entry into new verticals and geographies.

DB Schenker, the logistics arm of Deutsche Bahn, has invested $21.7m in Volocopter, an air taxi developer already backed by corporates Daimler, Geely Holding and Intel.

Paradigm co-led the latest round for crypto trading services provider Amber, with Coinbase and Blockchain.com also investing.

Ackermans & van Haaren fund Sofinim returned for a $20.6m round that will fund the cancer-analysis software provider's expansion and product development.

Sompo Holdings, iRobot, Toyota AI Ventures, Union Tech Ventures, Happiness Capital, Samsung Next and Bloomberg Beta all backed the companion robot developer's series B round.