The Alibaba-backed automated sales platform operator has secured $17.2m in a round led by Sequoia Capital China.

Salesforce Ventures led a $120m round for the identity management software provider that also attracted Deutsche Telekom and Telstra, at a valuation exceeding $1.9bn.

The investment firm saw its portfolio net value decrease but said assets under management had risen by more than 50% during the 2019-2020 financial year.

Nan Fung Life Sciences and affiliate Pivotal BioVenture Partners invested in the ophthalmology therapy developer having incubated it last year.

New investor Lilly Asia Ventures helped the cancer testing kit provider increase its overall funding to more than $160m.

The sustainable forestry wood provider will use the funding to expand further into East Africa and bolster its wood manufacturing resources.

GV is among the investors in Snorkel, which has emerged from stealth developing modelling technology for machine learning.

GV and In-Q-Tel joined Greylock Partners in the first announced funding round for Snorkel AI, a machine learning development spinout from Stanford.

Shenzhen Kingdom Sci-Tech's robotic process automation spinoff has raised its first external funding, in a $14.3m round led by venture firm Qiming Venture Partners.

Every day, Global University Venturing rounds up the smaller investments from across the university innovation ecosystem in its deal net.