Tomoko Inoue, formerly senior manager at MedVenture Partners, joined corporate venturing unit Omron Ventures as chief executive earlier this year.

Leonard Lee, formerly global head of new business models and services for Airbus, has taken a partner position at Silk Ventures.

Beijing Yue Meters Technology, which produces keyboards for the karaoke system provider, has also invested in its series B round.

FPT, SoftBank, EContext Asia and Beenos were part of a consortium that committed $51m in funding to online marketplace operator Sendo.

The social parenting community operator counts Alibaba, Fosun, Tal Education and Jumei as shareholders and is seeking a $5bn valuation.

The genomic drug developer has secured $15m in a pre-series B round led by Lilly Asia Ventures that included Huagai Capital, IDG Capital and WI Harper.

SoftBank Ventures Korea invested in Mykoon, the owner of social radio platform Spoon, alongside KB Investment and Goodwater Capital.

Prosperity Holdings led a $43.5m round for the co-working space provider, which already had several corporate backers, at a $1.8bn valuation.

Nobutake Suzuki, former partner at Global Brain, has returned to Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group as a managing director.

The motion control technology producer has set up an $85m corporate venturing unit, Nabtesco Technology Ventures, with Emerald Technology Ventures.