AP Moller – Maersk returned in an Inven Capital-led round that lifted the freight management platform developer's total funding to $103m.

Aier Eye Hospital was among the participants in a series B-plus round that took the cancer treatment and test developer's overall funding to more than $65m.

Nereid Therapeutics will advance research by Clifford Brangwynne of Princeton University following its launch with a $50m series A round from Apple Tree Partners.

The SSD technology provider's $30.4m round was led by SoftBank Ventures Asia and included Tencent Investment, BAI, Qualcomm Ventures and Toyou Feiji.

Syncona has launched Purespring to commercialise gene therapies aimed at kidney diseases that are based on work at University of Bristol.

Axa Venture Partners led a $14.9m round for the e-commerce fulfilment platform developer, which counts SanomaVentures as an earlier backer.

NAC International led a series A round for nuclear waste manager Deep Isolation following an initial partnership formed last year.

The Recruit, Intel, New York Life, Cisco and Citi-backed enterprise AI platform developer increased its valuation to $2.7bn and its overall funding to about $500m.

WuXi AppTec’s Corporate Venture Fund was among the participants in a series A round disclosed as the precision medicine startup emerged from stealth.

Infracapital supplied the funding for the energy storage services provider, which also counts Jera and Tokyo Electric Power among its investors.