Legend Holdings, Wind Info and IDG Capital Partners have backed a $30m round for Haizhi Wangju that valued the big data company at $250m.

The e-commerce marketplace has become Japan's first pre-IPO unicorn, raising money in a round that included Mitsui and Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank.

Computer Masti, a computer science curriculum, drives the acquisition of Indian Institute of Technology spinout Inopen Technologies by Next Education.

Hopscotch, backed by Jabbar Internet Group, has raised additional capital from existing investor Eduardo Saverin, co-founder of social media network Facebook.

Telstra has provided $7m for the $80m Southeast Asian fund being raised by Singapore-based Monk's Hill Ventures, joining LPs already including Cisco and Yahoo Japan.

Naspers returned to reinvest in the Dubai-based online marketplace, which has now raised $425m in total and is reportedly worth more than $1bn.

Tencent was among the investors in a $12m series A round for the China-based parking space location app developer.