Total Ventures and existing shareholder Workday Ventures took part in a $60m round that lifted carpooling service Scoop Technologies’ total funding to more than $106m.

Cloud services supplier Zenlayer, which counts NSFocus as an early investor, secured $28.4m in funding the month after opening a Chinese R&D hub.

SK Telecom has returned for Pavilion Data Systems' $25m series C funding, having also participated in the data management technology developer’s last two rounds.

Social game developer Singularity 6 has raised $16.5m from investors including FunPlus Ventures as it continues work on its first title.

Novartis Venture Fund co-led the gene therapy developer's series A round, raised as it prepares to submit an investigational new drug application for its lead drug.

Construction vision technology startup OpenSpace has attracted WeWork, Suffolk Construction, Tishman Speyer and JLL Spark to a round that will fund sales, marketing and product development.

Mediaset’s Ad4Ventures has contributed to an $11.2m round for kitchenware e-commerce company Springlane, almost a year after fellow CVC unit Tengelmann Ventures sold its stake.

Business management software producer has added $10.7m to the Hearst-backed series A round it closed last year and will spend it on product development, sales and marketing.

Osage University Partners is among the series B investors backing Virginia Tech-linked IBD therapy disease developer Landos Biopharma, which is preparing phase 2 trials.

Conversational software developer Uniphore has confirmed a $51m series C round backed by Sistema, though it did not verify reports of National Grid’s involvement.