Princeton University is a long-standing partner of Qiming Venture Partners, having invested in the latter's inaugural fund back in 2006.

Carmaker FAW Group joined Bank of China subsidiary BOCG Investment to provide $100m for lithium ceramic battery provider ProLogium.

The e-commerce firm is reportedly investing in online grocery service BigBasket as part of a $60m round at a valuation of up to $1.3bn.

On-demand delivery services marketplace Porter has attracted $18.2m from Lightstone Global Fund, coming after Mahindra & Mahindra invested $10m two years ago.

Legend Holdings contributed to a $12.6m round that boosted the total raised by the TAL Education-backed online tutoring provider to more than $83m.

The TVS and Max Group-backed cosmetics e-commerce platform has received $13.3m from Steadview despite shutting down during the coronavirus pandemic.

Visa and MassMutual Ventures Southeast Asia were among the participants in a round that lifted cross-border financial services company Neat's overall funding to $16m.

The online lending platform raised $23.5m for the first close of a series C round that was co-led by BRI Ventures and MUFG Innovation Partners.

CTC Capital has led an $58m series E round for AISpeech, a natural language processing technology developer already backed by TusPark Ventures.

Tencent has once again thrown its weight behind online food delivery platform Swiggy for a $43m extension that also featured Samsung Ventures, bringing the round's total size to $156m.