Bertelsmann has led the round that will be used by the agtech developer to accelerate its digital footprint in India and expand its leadership team.

Lear Innovation Ventures, a subsidiary of Lear Corporation, has backed the mobility-focused VC firm's latest fund, joining Alliance Ventures as a limited partner.

The physician-based social media platform has raised $11m in a round co-led by Itochu, which supplied $6m, and existing backer Singapore Press Holdings.

The SIG-backed hotel booking portal is set to raise up to $50m in a series B round that is being led by venture firm Qiming Venture Partners.

The cross-border e-commerce platform has completed a $59.5m series C round led by the Alibaba-headed Electronic World Trade Platform, boosting its total funding to about $85m.

CreditEase's New Financial Industrial Fund was among the investors in a round that took the financial search engine's overall funding to $60m.

Lilly Asia Ventures has returned for a series C round that boosted the total raised by the cancer and metabolic disease drug developer to $100m.

Existing investors Tencent and General Atlantic have supplied up to $11.4m of additional funding for Byju's, which was valued at at least $3.6bn as of December.

DSG Consumer Partners made a four-times return on its investment in corporate-backed Oyo, exiting as part of its recent $1bn round.

The Fosun-backed wedding services marketplace will use the proceeds from the series D-1 round to further develop its AI and big data technologies.