Toray Engineering has returned to back a $27.3m round for the surgical robot developer, investing alongside Dai-ichi Life and Medipal Innovation.

Myeg returned for augmented reality technology developer HiScene's $41.6m series C-plus round while celiac disease drug developer Calypso Biotech hiked a corporate-backed round to over $33m.

Every day, Global University Venturing rounds up the smaller investments from across the university innovation ecosystem in its deal net.

Stratasys spinoff Evolve Additive Solutions secured $30m from 3D Ventures while CollegeDekho - spun off by GirnarSoft - raised $26.5m.

Keio’s synthetic silk producer increased its valuation to over $1.2bn in a round led by Carlyle Japan Partners.

The semiconductor wafer maker intends to ramp up its production capacity with funding from investors including Yangtze Optical FC.

Home rental finance service Jetty bagged $23m from investors including Citi, Farmers Insurance and CreditEase, while ByteDance co-led IoT technology developer RiVai's latest round.

The corporate-backed synthetic silk producer increased its valuation to over $1.2bn in a round led by Carlyle Japan Partners.

PayPal was one of several corporates to invest in Paidy before agreeing this week to purchase the consumer finance service provider.

Tencent, BCC and Naspers-backed study materials provider Byju's reportedly hiked its valuation to $16.9bn in the round, which was led by Asmaan Ventures.