Legend Capital co-led a $282m series B round for chipmaker Eswin Computing Technology which will use the money to fund R&D, recruitment and manufacturing.

The air taxi developer added $35m from Baillie Gifford to a $240m first close led by Tencent in March, and is now valued above $1bn.

Rockwell Automation and existing investor ABB Technology Ventures contributed to a $17.8m round that hiked the digital circuit breaker developer's overall funding to $23m.

Tencent is among the possible participants in a round that could reportedly double the online learning service provider's $510m valuation.

Sunshine Insurance participated in a $70.7m round for the contract biopharmaceutical services provider that follows $59m last year.

The advanced body scanner developer has boosted the SK Telecom, Foxconn and Fujifilm-backed round to $51m and is now valued at about $600m.

DocsApp, whose investors include DeNA and Techmatrix, has joined forces with MediBuddy in deal buoyed by a $20m round backed by Mitsui Sumitomo.

UBS has led a $17.5m round for the trader communication platform developer that was also backed by Barclays and JP Morgan.

Each Friday the Global Corporate Venturing Deal Net rounds up the week’s smaller deals and tracks the emerging companies accessing corporate funds.

Private equity group Northstar has reportedly led a $130m round for the e-commerce marketplace, which counts JD.com, Sumitomo, CyberAgent and VNG as investors.