WuXi AppTec and New World Development-backed Adagene has now raised $155m in total, as it takes its first cancer immunotherapy through clinical testing.

VIPKid investor Tencent has participated in an $80m series A round for its livestreamed tutoring offshoot, Dami Wangxiao.

The educational app developer, which counts Tencent, Naspers and BCC among its investors, raised the money at a valuation of about $8bn.

Hesai has raised what it claims to be the largest ever funding round for a lidar technology producer, with Robert Bosch a key investor.

Samsung, SIG and OP Financial contributed to $144m in funding, raised across two rounds, for digital health technology producer Zhiyun Health.

Itochu returned to help the electric vehicle leasing service raise tens of millions of dollars, seven months after it closed a $100m series B round.

The digital risk-management platform developer took in the funding through a round that was co-led by Tencent and backed by existing investor Baidu.

Corporate-backed healthcare app developer Finc Technologies has raised $46.1m in fresh funding that will fund marketing and business development, bringing its overall financing to more than $138m.

LG CNS and Kakao Ventures chipped into a $25.7m round for the medical imaging-analysis platform developer, boosting its overall funding to $46m.

Weizmann Institute of Science has become the latest academic research institution to join forces with Deerfield Management for a drug discovery program.