Existing investors Celgene and Astellas returned to back the virus-based cancer therapy developer's $79.5m series B round to take its total funding to more than $140m.

ProSiebenSat1-backed banking and loan management app developer Numbrs has raised $40m at a valuation of more than $1bn and will now expand across Europe.

Kyushu University's Qu Ventures has supported a series A round for robot-equipped consumer goods delivery service Starship Technologies.

Ping An Global Voyager Fund co-led H2O.ai's $72.5m series D round, bringing its total funding to $147m in support of its open-source AI model development platform.

TDK Ventures made its first investment by backing a series A round for robot-equipped consumer goods delivery service Starship Technologies.

The consumer goods trading platform has secured nearly $80m from existing investor Tencent in a deal that took its total funding past $510m.

Rakuten has backed a $70m round for the hotel booking platform that came less than a month after it completed a $45m series B.

Total Ventures and existing shareholder Workday Ventures took part in a $60m round that lifted carpooling service Scoop Technologies’ total funding to more than $106m.

Osage University Partners is among the series B investors backing Virginia Tech-linked IBD therapy disease developer Landos Biopharma, which is preparing phase 2 trials.

Conversational software developer Uniphore has confirmed a $51m series C round backed by Sistema, though it did not verify reports of National Grid’s involvement.