The spice products supplier collected $14.5m from investors including Bitburger Ventures, which joins existing investor Döhler Ventures as a corporate backer.

The Tencent and Alibaba-backed social commerce platform suspended the dicussions last year but is now retrying for financing at a $6bn valuation.

Alibaba has taken part in an $88.3m round for the community e-commerce platform that came five months after its merger with counterpart Niwoning.

Foxconn, Chow Tai Fook, Hogy Medical and Varian Medical have all invested in a round that took the surgical robot developer's total financing to $160m.

The DNA sequencing technology developer, which counts Nan Fung and Lam Research as investors, has added $60m to take its funding to $145m in the last 18 months.

News Corp and its real estate advertising arm, REA Group, supplied $70m in convertible note financing for the property listings platform.

Investors including SBI and Sugi chipped in to help Inagora, the operator of cross-border e-commerce marketplace Wandou, raise $48.4m.

Line Ventures backed a $36.2m round for AI-equipped e-commerce platform TimeBank that will help the startup acquire new users and partners.

The healthcare scheduling software provider boosted its total funding to almost $120m in a round backed by Providence Ventures and Salesforce Ventures.

Roche Venture Fund led a $14.1m extension for Jasper Therapeutics, developer of a conditioning agent for haematopoietic cell transplants, boosting the round to more than $49m.