Bell Food Group and M Ventures have contributed to an initial $55m series B tranche for the cultured meat developer spun out of Maastricht University.

Bell Food Group and M Ventures have contributed to an initial $55m series B tranche for the cultured meat developer spun out of Maastricht University.

4490 Ventures, a VC firm aligned to University of Wisconsin-Madison, backed a series A extension intended to advance in-venue digital marketing technology company UpShow's product and recruitment plans.

Tencent has led a round worth hundreds of millions of dollars for New Ruipeng, which is now valued at $4.4bn and also backed by Boehringer Ingelheim and Country Garden.

Roche has injected funding into Palladio, creators of a drug for autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease.

OUP has injected follow-on funding into Palladio, creators of a drug for autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease.

SoftBank Vision Fund 2, PICC Group and Morningside Venture Capital co-led the round, which also attracted Tencent, China Life Insurance, SIG China and others.

Delivery Hero and SoftBank-backed Rappi has picked up more than $300m from a group of investors including T. Rowe Price Associates.

Tencent joined GL Ventures and YF Capital to co-lead a $176m funding round for Taimei Technology, while SoftBank China Venture Capital also invested.

Lilly Asia Ventures has returned for a $147m series D round that will allow InventisBio to advance its treatments for breast cancer and gout into phase 2 clinical trials.