Illumina Ventures was among the returning investors for the round that will help Kallyope prepare a weight loss treatment for clinical trials.

Naspers subsidiary OLX Group led a $120m round for the e-commerce app developers, which have agreed to merge, and will own 40% of the combined entity.

Viva Biotech contributed to a round that will help Regenacy Pharmaceuticals push its diabetic peripheral neuropathy candidate into phase 2 trials.

RigUp, the GE Ventures-backed developer of an energy work management platform, has secured $28.7m of a targeted $78.7m round.

The corporate-backed mobile wallet provider has secured a blend of debt, equity and warrant financing totalling $29.7m from an investor called MK SPV IX.

The anti-fraud platform developer boosted its total funding to $36m in a round led by Microsoft's M12 unit and backed by existing investor PayPal.

The mapping software developer has secured $14.1m in a round led by venture firm Everest Venture Capital, two years after being spun off by SF Express.

TusStar-backed semiconductor laser developer Berxel received $14.1m in a round that was led by Vision Knight Capital.

The Montana State University-backed edible protein developer has rebranded from Sustainable Bioproducts and received series B funding.

MassMutual Ventures backed LinkSquares in a round which brought the language analysis software developer’s total funding to more than $21m.