Chubu Electric Power, Daikin, Mitsubishi UFJ Capital, Mizuho Capital and SMBC Venture Capital were among the backers that helped Japan Data Science Consortium complete a $27.5m round.

Comment from Sakon Kuramoto, Benjamin Miller and Hiroki Sugita, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe

Innovative region: Japan

Media group Emtek has sold its shares in PropertyGuru roughly a year after the real estate technology provider pulled back from plans to go public.

The computer vision chip producer is based on research at Tsinghua University and Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Shouqi Group's Baidu and Nio-backed ride hailing spinoff has secured hundreds of millions of dollars in its latest round.

Existing investor SIG China returned for a $37.2m round that pushed the insurance software provider's overall funding past the $70m mark.

NTU spinout Nanofilm Technologies has seemingly filed a draft prospectus with a view of listing on the domestic Singapore Stock Exchange.

Logicreation's primary and secondary school-focused online education spinoff raised $29.7m in its second external funding round.

The stock trading platform operator previously called MyBanker has secured fresh funding from returning investors including SoftBank.