BASF Ventures is among the LPs for the second fund to be formed by the agriculture-focused venture capital firm, whose first fund was anchored by Godrej Agrovet.

Yasuo Miyazawa, who had spent five years in the US as head of Nitto Denko's Nitto Innovations investment vehicle, is set to develop a similar initiative for Sekisui Chemical.

The Renren-backed online investment platform has landed $25.6m in a Loyal Valley Capital-led round, taking its overall funding to more than $100m.

SBI Investment led a $17.2m round that will enable the online healthcare platform developer to expand its hospital network in India.

Tencent took part in an $18.6m round that will enable the game-focused influencer marketing platform to hire additional content producers.

Line Ventures, Singha Ventures, Grab Ventures and SMDV contributed to shopping delivery platform HappyFresh's latest round, which was led by Mirae Asset-Naver Asia Growth Fund.

MicroPort participated in the round through a partnership deal that gave it marketing rights for Rapid's endovascular devices in China.

Mobile Premier League, operator of a series of cash prize-based eSports games, has landed $33.5m in a round that included Go-Ventures and Times Internet.

Dance organisation platform Tangdou has reportedly raised a total of nearly $100m to date, which would put its Tencent-backed series C round at roughly $75m.

Qualcomm, Syngenta and Doosan-backed fresh fruit and vegetables supply chain operator Ninjacart has raised $89.5m from Tiger Global Management.