Nio Capital has led a $14.5m series C round for BoCloud that also attracted existing backer JD Cloud, a contributor to its last round.

The remittance services startup raised $31.2m from backers including HashKey, UOB, Seven Bank, Uni-President Enterprises and Hanwha.

Saudi Aramco Energy Ventures is preparing a $500m second fund following on from a first fund of the same size, launched by the unit in 2012.

The Tencent and Alibaba-backed social commerce platform suspended the dicussions last year but is now retrying for financing at a $6bn valuation.

Alibaba has taken part in an $88.3m round for the community e-commerce platform that came five months after its merger with counterpart Niwoning.

News Corp and its real estate advertising arm, REA Group, supplied $70m in convertible note financing for the property listings platform.

Investors including SBI and Sugi chipped in to help Inagora, the operator of cross-border e-commerce marketplace Wandou, raise $48.4m.

Line Ventures backed a $36.2m round for AI-equipped e-commerce platform TimeBank that will help the startup acquire new users and partners.

Frasers Property has expanded its share of the co-working space operator to 22.2% by acquiring $12.4m of additional stock in a secondary share purchase.

Managing director Paul Ark is departing from Siam Commercial Bank after overseeing its SCB Digital Ventures unit for nearly four years.