Google is the latest corporate to throw its weight behind Reliance Industries' digital services spinoff whose shareholders already include Intel, Qualcomm and Facebook.

The Alibaba-backed automated sales platform operator has secured $17.2m in a round led by Sequoia Capital China.

The online employee and further education provider has listed on TSE’s Mothers Market, allowing Tokyo Institute of Technology to exit.

The Baidu and SoftBank-backed on-demand staff provider floated in the middle of its range in a US offering and its market cap currently stands at about $600m.

Nan Fung Life Sciences and affiliate Pivotal BioVenture Partners invested in the ophthalmology therapy developer having incubated it last year.

New investor Lilly Asia Ventures helped the cancer testing kit provider increase its overall funding to more than $160m.

The insurance firm is set to begin by contributing to a TPG-run fund before moving on to its own investments in three years time.

Merck & Co and Ackermans & van Haaren are among the limited partners for the $68m first close of Quadria Capital's healthcare technology fund.

Shenzhen Kingdom Sci-Tech's robotic process automation spinoff has raised its first external funding, in a $14.3m round led by venture firm Qiming Venture Partners.

The biofuel provider has launched Euglena Sustainable Ventures to invest in bioinformatics, direct-to-consumer and healthcare technology developers.