AIA led the round, which valued online health portal WeDoctor at $5.5bn, as part of a strategic collaboration deal.

The food and agtech accelerator has accepted an inaugural cohort of eight, with half of the intake focusing on the agtech space.

JP Lee has moved up from managing director at the unit, replacing Greg Moon who has joined SoftBank Vision Fund.

Ride hailing service Go-Jek has appointed Aditya Kumar, an alumnus of SoftBank, as its vice-president of corporate development.

Nanotech Industrial Solutions, which is exploiting research from Weizmann Institute of Science, received the funding in a round led by EcoMachines Ventures.

Dong-Su Kim, who has led investments in more than 20 companies for Samsung Ventures America, is setting up a new fund at LG.

SoftBank is set to completely exit Flipkart as part of a deal that will value the company at $20bn, in which Alphabet is now expected to be involved.

The CEC and Shulan Health-backed medical data analysis platform received $15.8m in a round led by GGV Capital.

Yissum, though its investment fund Agrinnovation, has contributed to a seed round for one of its portfolio companies, Future Meat Technologies.