Existing corporate investors Block.one and Coinbase Ventures participated in a round valuing the digital currency exchange at $1.1bn.

EV Growth has returned to help the B2B2C insurance portal operator close its latest round, which included Emtek and Sinar Mas’ SMDV unit.

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

Leyaoyao raised a nine-digit yuan amount from investors including 37 Interactive Entertainment while Lockheed Martin and Booz Allen Hamilton contributed to AI developer Latent AI's series A round.

Q&A with Angela Wang, vice-president, Ping An Global Voyager Fund

The diversified e-commerce platform was valued at $16.5bn in a round co-led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2, following $350m from Alibaba in March.

Lilly Asia Ventures was among the participants in a series C round closed by the Ant Group and China Re-backed healthcare payment platform operator.

The telecoms and internet conglomerate revealed the gain after expanding its second Vision Fund to $40bn last month.

CRRC Times and Xiamen Xiangyu were among the LPs for the venture firm’s latest dollar vehicle that will invest in healtech companies concentrating on biotech, IVDs and medical supplies.

Alameda Research, Blockchain.com and Coinbase helped cryptocurrency exchange Pintu close a $35m round while small molecule drug developer Aardvark raised $29m.