Chubu Electric Power, Daikin, Mitsubishi UFJ Capital, Mizuho Capital and SMBC Venture Capital were among the backers that helped Japan Data Science Consortium complete a $27.5m round.

Topas Therapeutics, which is exploiting University of Hamburg research, has pocketed $26m in its series B round.

The round was led by $8m from Leaps by Bayer and increased the microbiome skin treatment developer's total funding to $34m.

Nelson Education participated in a $15.2m round for Knowledgehook, which is mulling the expansion of its maths learning assessement platform to other subjects.

Main Sequence Ventures, which co-founded the meat-free burger producer last year, has returned for a $55m series B round.

Media group Emtek has sold its shares in PropertyGuru roughly a year after the real estate technology provider pulled back from plans to go public.

The computer vision chip producer is based on research at Tsinghua University and Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Shouqi Group's Baidu and Nio-backed ride hailing spinoff has secured hundreds of millions of dollars in its latest round.

Existing investor SIG China returned for a $37.2m round that pushed the insurance software provider's overall funding past the $70m mark.

Logicreation's primary and secondary school-focused online education spinoff raised $29.7m in its second external funding round.