Tencent led the People.cn-backed video news platform's series A round, investing alongside fellow corporate Baidu.

Tencent Industrial Capital has co-led a series C round for MiningLamp, a big data technology producer that raised $30m two years ago.

The Tencent and Bertelsmann-backed social commerce platform has spoken to potential advisors and underwriters about an offering that could value it at $4bn.

CreditEase Financial Industry Fund was among the investors as Meiliche Jinrong, the car financing spinout of online lender Meili Jinrong, got more series B cash.

BCA, BRI and Telkom Indonesia all invested in the biometric identification software developer, whose early backers include Recruit and Sinar Mas.

Existing investors Fosun and Ant Financial contributed to the first tranche of the bicycle rental platform's series E round, four months after a $500m series D.

Nielsen Ventures was among the participants as the nutritional data platform completed a series A round to boost its overall funding to $10m.

RDC will exit cyber threat detection platform Secdo through an acquisition by Palo Alto Networks reportedly sized at about $100m.