Daimler invested $100m to lead the ride hailing service's latest round, which included Didi Chuxing, valuing it at more than $1bn.

The vehicle will feature contributions from the Finnish government and the European Investment Fund to support research and science-orientated businesses across Finland.

ChromaCure has spun out of Université libre de Bruxelles with $19.6m in funding to commercialise treatments for cancer based on a new understanding on tumour metastasis.

Beetlebox has been launched by Imperial Innovations to commercialise research conducted by Andrew Swirski.

Epic Conjoint, This is Seaweed and Travacoin have spun into NovaUCD, the innovation hub at University College Dublin, with a view of raising $8.7m within two years.

The Oxford spinout has lured funding from OSI and the university itself as it aims to meet performance milestones for its peptide drug discovery programs.

Platform.sh boosted its overall funding to $47m, raising cash in an SNCF Digital Ventures-backed round that will support US growth.

The ProSiebenSat.1-backed sport content publishing platform has raised series F capital, boosting its total funding to $77m.

Fidelity-backed medical access service Heal has now secured more than $69m in funding over the past four years.