Japan Post Capital contributed to a $26.4m round for the direct-to-consumer marketing and human resources technology provider, bringing its total funding to more than $62m.

SoftBank reportedly invested $1bn in the online real estate brokerage as part of a $2.41bn round also featuring Tencent at a valuation of more than $14bn.

The ride sharing company has opened the application period for its third Velocity scale-up initiative and launched a Vietnam-based startup accelerator called Ignite.

Keio Innovation Initative has backed a $74.4m round for the polymer-based battery producer, which is advancing research from Keio's professor Hideaki Horie.

Chinese Academy of Sciences and its VC subsidiary TCL Capital are in line to exit the artificial intelligence chip producer, which was valued at $2.5bn as of 2018.

Alibaba, Lenovo, Tuling Century and iFlytek are in line to exit the artificial intelligence chip producer, which was valued at $2.5bn as of 2018.

JFE Chemical, JXTG, Nagase, Obayashi, Teijin and Yokogawa Electric backed a $74.4m round for the polymer-based battery producer.

Aflac Ventures has invested in cardiac diagnosis system developer Tricog Health as part of a $10.5m round that took its total funding to more than $17m.

Amrish Rau, who headed investments for PayU, has taken on the CEO role at corporate-backed merchant services provider Pine Labs.

Voyage Group and Akatsuki's AET Fund both exited co-living space operator StayAbode, which has been bought by NestAway in a cash-and-equity transaction.