Fresh funding for the EV battery company comes as Chinese automotive players are ramping up mobility investment efforts.

The Global Corporate Venturing deal net rounds up the smaller investments from across the corporate innovation ecosystem.

Asahi Intecc, Eisai and Ohara were among the LPs of Africa-minded AAIC Investment’s second vehicle, following in the footsteps of corporate-backed Samurai Africa Fund 2.

The drug wholesaler’s CVC fund will have up to $39.3m in capital, and will be led by Suzuken's head of corporate strategy, Yuichi Yamamoto.

Web3 services provider Venly and genomic analysis technology provider Genome Insight each raised $23m while Rui Ye Lian helped Cedarlake Capital close a $189m fund.

Meituan co-led the unmanned forklift producer’s series C-plus round, which came seven months after a first close that featured ByteDance and Lenovo.

Kaiser Permanente backed the India-based rapid delivery challenger as it squares up against bigger rivals.

Content personalisation technology provider Movable Ink and carbon-negative concrete developer Brimstone each raised $55m, with Intel and Amazon respectively among the investors.

Info Edge's corporate venturing activities are being boosted by Singapore-owned Temasek, which is committing 50% of the capital for three of its funds.

Call centre software producer Replicant closed a $78m series B round backed by Salesforce Ventures while Ashvattha Therapeutics raised $69m from investors including strategic partner Huadong Medicine.