The university announced an incubator tie-up with Bangkok Bank that will support entrepreneurial faculty and students, as well as an initiative intended to glean insights from international partners.

BGI's gene sequencer spinoff, MGI Tech, has secured $200m in funding from Goldstone Investment, Green Pine Capital and Orient Securities despite a reported $1bn target.

DeNA plans to raise approximately $91m for an investment fund in which it will be the general partner, kickstarting its CVC activities after an 18-month gap.

Alibaba returned to reinvest in Megvii as part of a series E round that valued the facial recognition software provider at more than $4bn.

Suning has joined forces with Yunfeng Capital, the private equity firm co-founded by Alibaba founder Jack Ma, committing up to $210m to a fund that is targeting a $2.5bn close.

PayPay, the mobile payment platform launched by SoftBank and Yahoo Japan last July, has received $419m in additional funding from the former.

The financial comparison platform has received a total of $80m to date from investors including Aegon, at least $30m of which was secured in 2019.

Bertelsmann Asia Investments co-led a $22.1m round that will enable the industrial software provider to expand its engineering and sales teams.

Shionogi has participated in an $11m round for flu detection device developer Aillis in connection with the formation of a partnership agreement.

KDDI, Saison Ventures, SB Players and Itochu are among the host of corporate investors that backed crowdfunding platform Campfire in its $20m series C round.