Limited partners including Apple, Foxconn, Microsoft and Dai-ichi Life have agreed to commit to the massive-scale fund, which is in talks to secure even more capital.

DeNA has set up a $92.5m investment fund that will be run by its nascent corporate venture capital unit, Delight Ventures.

Industrial Bank and Ping An Insurance Real Estate Investment are among the limited partners for a healthcare-focused fund launched by Shenzhen Capital that is targeting a $116m first close.

Bennett Cohen has left Shell Ventures to join Petronas' corporate VC vehicle, which was set up by former GE Ventures managing director Ricardo Angel earlier this year.

Dentsu, Dai-ichi Life and Persol are among the investors that provided $20.4m for the product-management technology developer.

Cash Capital joined a unit of Red Star Macalline to back Mingdu Intelligent, which provides drug manufacturing services mainly related to data management and quality control.

Legend Holdings vehicle Legend Star took part in a round that will fund the further development of Qihan Biotech's organ transplant technology.

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

Standard Chartered and Goldman Sachs look likely to be joined by Apple and Microsoft, while SoftBank will commit about $40bn to the fund's forthcoming second iteration.

Toyota will invest $600m into Didi Chuxing and form a joint venture also involving GAC Toyota Motor that will be focused on vehicle-related services for ride hailing drivers.