The produce e-commerce company has also signed an agreement to harness JD.com's resources in order to expand in its home country of China.

The text-to-video technology provider will use the NantMobile-led series B funding to build out its US office and expand its staff.

The venture capital firm, which achieved three exits from its $30m first fund, has closed a second fund that will also fund cybersecurity and enterprise software companies.

IDG Capital Partners has backed a Qiming Venture Partners-led series B round for the internet security company, bringing its total funding to more than $41m.

The e-commerce services provider, backed by Alibaba and SoftBank, floated below its range but finished its first day of trading slightly up.

The e-commerce company, which includes Naspers and IDG among its shareholders, has now raised almost $3bn since it was founded.

Shengda Mining and Dahu Acquaculture have participated in a $242m funding round for online dating platform Baihe.com, which is preparing to go public this year.

Ant Financial, the financial services affiliate of Alibaba currently raising money at a valuation of up to $40bn, will look to fund internet finance companies through the unit.

Logistics services provider TrucksFirst will use the series A funding to support technology development, strengthen its back-end infrastructure and expand its team.