Alphabet and Tencent-backed automation software producer UiPath has more than tripled its valuation in the past seven months to $35bn.

The Shanghai Electric and CRRC-backed electric vehicle spinoff has now raised more than $1.06bn since being spun off by Dahua Technologies.

Daimler, Siemens, Samsung and Amperex-backed battery technology producer Sila Nanotechnologies more than tripled its valuation to $3.3bn in the series F round.

Prosus took part in a round that pushed the total raised by the food and consumer goods delivery service to $856m.

China Three Gorges, Cisco and Lenovo-backed 4Paradigm has closed a $700m series D round after more than a dozen backers threw their weight behind the enterprise AI developer.

Amazon returned for a round valuing the electric truck developer at $27.6bn as it prepares to release its first vehicles later this year.

Microsoft joined carmakers General Motors and Honda in a round that pushed the driverless car technology developer's valuation to $30bn.

GV and Nextech contributed to a series B round that boosted the affordable pharmaceutical developer's overall funding to $750m.

Business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce marketplace Udaan extended its series D round with a $280m tranche, featuring Tencent. The company is one of the comparatively few B2B e-commerce deals we have reported, despite the relative size and importance of the B2B in it.

Snowflake Ventures put up $20m for the cloud cybersecurity platform developer's latest round, which included existing backer Liberty Global Ventures.