Osage University Partners was among the investors in the University of California San Diego spinout's latest round, which will support phase 1 trial for its lead compound.

Antiva Biosciences, which is developing therapies to treat lesions that cause cervical cancer, has raised $22m in a series C round led by the venture capital arm of EMS.

Financial services firm Capitec Bank has made a strategic investment in consumer finance provider Creamfinance, leading a $22.9m series B round.

MSU agriculture data analytics spinout Cibo Technologies was co-founded by Bruno Basso to commercialise a forecasting approach centred on interactions between different nodes in the farming process.

Novo-backed BioClin Therapeutics will put the funding toward advancing an antibody it is developing as a metastatic bladder cancer treatment through phase 1b/2 trials.

Mitsui, Samsung, Liberty Interactive and Delek Motors all took part in a series D round that boosted the autonomous car chipset maker's total funding to $70m.

The fashion rental platform has received $20m in a series B round led by Pan-Lin Asset Management that included existing investor IDG Capital.

Data storage technology provider Reduxio Systems has secured $22.5m out of a targeted $32m from investors including Intel Capital and Seagate Technology.

Johnson & Johnson and GlaxoSmithKline have contributed to a series B round for Pulmocide, a respiratory therapy spinout of Imperial College London.