Siam Commercial Bank’s $100m Digital Ventures fund may become a new standalone company, as it considers spinning off subsidiaries.

The furniture rental service pulled in $17.5m from a round led by Crescent Enterprises' corporate venture capital vehicle as it prepares to expand into the Middle East.

Existing investors Dell Technologies Capital and SGE returned to help boost simulation-based cybersecurity software platform Cymulate's total funding to $26m.

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

The Qualcomm-backed scooter rental service is now valued at more than $500m, as it moves toward a projected $200m close for its latest round.

UMC Capital and the Arm-backed Hopu-Arm Innovation Fund backed enterprise AI software developer Appier in a round that almost doubled its overall funding to $162m.

University of Tokyo Edge Capital has led a series A round set to support on-demand bus transport company Swat's push into additional Asian markets.

On-demand bus transportation service Swat secured $10.1m in a round backed by public transit operators SMRT and ComfortDelGro that will fund geographical expansion and recruitment.

The bus transportation provider's series C round currently stands at $36m, half of which has come from Toyota Tsusho and Mirai Creation Fund.

Russell Greig, once president of GlaxoSmithKline subsidiary SR One, has taken the chairman position at drug developer BiomX, nine years after leaving the unit.