In-car connected technology developer Mogu Zhixing has received $120m in a Tencent-led series A round that included JD.com and Bertelsmann Asia Investments.

SoftBank, Western Digital, Xilinx and existing backer Intel all invested, as the cloud storage technology developer increased its overall funding to $40m.

Dentsu, Sega Sammy, Tokai Holdings, Marui and SBI all participated in a $10.7m round for the Japanese distributed energy marketplace.

ClalTech has taken part in a Viola Ventures-led series A round to increase the AI-based speech translation platform's total funding to $34m.

Samsung has agreed an acquisition of the smartphone camera technology provider, allowing SanDisk, Western Digital, CK Telecom, MediaTek and Foxconn to exit.

Francois Pichot has added the role of investment principal to his existing investment manager duties at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology’s innovation fund.

On-demand ride service Grab has received $200m from the shopping centre operator that will be channelled into its Thai subsidiary.

IIM Ahmedabad's incubator supplied seed funding to help environmental monitoring startup Oizom Instruments pursue marketing, product enhancements and R&D.

Singapore Telecommunications' CVC unit, Singtel Innov8 reinvested in a round that took enterprise network developer Cato Networks' total funding to $105m.

Mitsui and Equinor Energy Ventures were among the participants in a series A round that will help fund the development of 300 MW of distributed solar energy systems.