Conglomerate JSW Group's corporate venturing vehicle has received permission from the Indian regulator to begin making investments.

The real estate and trading company was among the investors that provided the $4.5bn equity portion of the ride ordering company's recent $7.3bn round.

Novosibirsk State University and Tomsk State University of Control Systems and Radioelectronics join forces to create a $13.8m venture fund.

Nikesh Arora, who had moved SoftBank's corporate venturing strategy toward larger and fewer investments, has left his position as president and COO.

Access Industries' Israel-based subsidiary co-led cyberthreat detection software provider LightCyber's latest round, taking its overall funding to more than $31m.

Internet company LeEco's virtual reality affiliate is raising a $46m funding round led by investment bank China Bridge Capital.

IDG Capital has co-led a fourth funding round for Circle, with participation from Baidu, Wanxiang and CreditEase, as the payment technology producer reveals its China plans.

Ant Financial has joined an investor base that already includes several corporates to help put up $150m in capital for mutual life insurer Xinmei.

Kaolo FM, a network operated by AutoRadio Group, has raised $26m in a round featuring Legend's corporate venturing unit.