Harvard spinout Platelet BioGenesis has added $26m in series A1 financing to its coffers thanks to a consortium co-led by Ziff Capital Partners and Qiming Venture Partners USA.

The financial advisory services provider plans to use EST's investment to launch a financial education arm and build a multilingual investment platform.

MIT Media Lab spinout Ginger has raised $35m as it looks to further develop its mental and emotional health support app.

Returning investor Kaiser Permanente Ventures contributed to a round that brought on-demand behavioural health app developer Ginger's lifetime funding to $63m.

The construction organisation platform added funding from Salesforce Ventures, Globis Capital Partners and four regional banks to close the round at $22.6m.

Existing investor DMG Ventures has returned to back a $30.4m round for automotive e-commerce platform Cazoo, its second in nine months.

SBI Group and Santander InnoVentures backed a series B round that boosted cryptocurrency security tool developer Elliptic's funding to $30m altogether.

Uchida Yoko, Mori Trust, SmartValue, DRS and Taiyo Oil have supplied a total of $21.7m for the cybersecurity and IoT technology provider in 2019.

Business banking services provider Aspire has disclosed that Kasikornbank-owned Beacon Venture Capital took part in the $32.5m series A round it announced last month.

The Stanford-backed consumer credit management platform has now raised $110m altogether, and the latest round will fund hiring and technology development.