Medicine development startup Brii Biosciences has launched with funding from investors including the WuXi AppTec-backed 6 Dimensions Capital.

Existing investors in the on-demand ride provider include Didi Chuxing, Rakuten, Saudi Telecom, Al Tayyar and Daimler.

The investment brought the total raised by the fast-charging battery developer, which is also backed by Samsung and Daimler, to $146m.

SoftBank's Chinese VC unit, SBCVC, has co-led a $21.1m round for autonomous service robot developer Cowarobot, with the funds to go to R&D.

News aggregation app NewsDog has raised funding in a Tencent-led round that included DotC United and Legend Capital.

The venture firm's debut fund has closed having secured capital from limited partners include CreditEase, Focus Media and Qihoo 360.

Foxconn subsidiary FIH Mobile has written down all but $3m of the $200m it provided for Snapdeal in 2015, according to its 2017 financial report.

Chinese car rental service Like has followed up $20m in funding reportedly closed last month with an Ant Financial-led series B round.

The telecoms network operator has launched a venture capital scheme in partnership with Iran's University of Tehran.

Tom Zhang, an engineering partner at corporate venturing unit GV, has taken the chief data scientist position at VC firm Sinovation.