After five years at Salesforce, the former head of Salesforce Ventures Japan has departed to become a co-founder of a new venture capital firm.

Jim Aota has moved up to CEO at Yamaha Motor Ventures and Laboratory Silicon Valley, replacing George Kellerman who has moved to Toyota.

BOCG Investment was among the participants in a round that will fund technology and strategic investments for the Haier-backed logistics service.

Asia-facing loan and insurance comparison service GoBear has now assembled $97m altogether, having lured existing investor Aegon to its latest round.

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

A year after collecting $200m in series A funding, BGI gene sequencing spinoff MGI Tech has closed a $1bn series B round co-led by IDG Capital and CPE Capital.

The oncology diagnostics technology provider has filed to go public in the US, with Legend Holdings and Eli Lilly set to exit through the flotation.

Ride hailing service Ola has pulled in $26.7m for its financial services offshoot from Falcon Edge, Matrix Partners and Apoletto Managers at a $250m valuation.

The visual privacy technology developer received $13.5m from investors including Axa Venture Partners, Omron Ventures and Hyundai.

Huaxi Group vehicle V-Capital contributed to an eight-figure round for SF Express-backed logistics robot technology developer Galaxis Technology.