NetApp paid $70m to acquire the data protection software developer, which had raised $11m from investors including Prosegur.

Fosun co-led a $43.4m round for omnichannel petcare brand Crazy Dog that will support an expansion slated to include the opening of offline stores.

BASF Venture Capital and Xiamen C&D are among the limited partners in Longwater Investment’s advanced materials-focused fund, which was already backed by Solvay.

University of Tsukuba-founded submarine drone maker FullDepth secured capital from investors including Sumitomo Forestry’s Tsukuba Research Institute and Mitsui Sumitomo Capital.

Aces has obtained a eight-figure amount from University of Tokyo-focused venture fund Deep30, which mainly backs AI technologies from the university's Matsuo Lab.

Lenovo Capital and Incubator Group has provided $14.4m in series A funding for the augmented reality module technology developer having also led its last round.

Tencent is in talks to participate in a $1bn round that would enable the mobile payment platform to spinoff from parent company Flipkart at a valuation of up to $8bn.

The carmaker, already a shareholder in Uber and Grab, is considering an investment of about $550m in the Chinese ride hailing app developer.

Tnuva Food Industries and Tempo Beverages are among the partners that will invest up to $100m in foodtech and agtech developers in Israel.

Deepcore, SoftBank's AI investment subsidiary, is planning to raise a second fund that will be larger in size than the $55m vehicle it launched a year ago.