Aditya Kumar, an ex-SoftBank corporate venturer who joined ride hailing service Go-Jek last year, has taken a role at its corporate venturing unit.

Clal Insurance and SCB Digital Ventures returned to help provide series C funding for the asset management software provider, having backed its series B last year.

Existing investors Aurora and Fosun RZ Capital both contributed to a $14.9m round that was co-led by Mandra Capital and Haitong Creative Capital.

Elara Technologies has acquired home rental platform FastFox for an amount likely to be about $15m, enabling CyberAgent to exit.

New Oriental Education & Technology Group co-led the online education management platform's series B round with China Growth Capital.

Sinopharm Capital helped supply funding to orthopaedic-focused device maker Suzhou and Science Technology Development, with the latter eyeing new products in areas including sports medicine.

SoftBank Vision Fund is reportedly seeking $15bn as a top up in advance of a second iteration of the $98.6bn investment vehicle.

Alibaba-backed social influencer network Ruhnn floated in the middle of its range in the US, with Weibo buying $8m of shares.

Bitmain took part in the first tranche of an IDG Capital-led series C round that values the cryptocurrency trading platform at over $1bn.

The industry-academia partnership will start out with collaborations in the healthcare, robotics and human resources spaces, including a sports science tie-up with a Rakuten-owned baseball team and plans for software development hackathons.