Tencent returned to reinvest in the AI chip developer through a $43.4m round that comes in the wake of a larger round last August.

CommerzVentures has returned to back Getsafe, a millennial-focused digital insurance app developer that also counts Rocket Internet as an investor.

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

ByteDance has paid $182m for a 30% stake in sporting media portal Hupu as the latter prepares to go public in its home country of China.

Strand Therapeutics has raised seed funding to develop an mRNA engineering platform based on MIT research as it looks to assemble a pipeline of oncological drug candidates.

The delivery services platform secured $100m in a round led by returning investor SoftBank Vision Fund, while another SoftBank fund considers adding $50m.

The real estate deals database has secured a mixture of equity and debt financing from Susquehanna Growth Equity, and will redeem series A shares owned by DMGT.

Sales-team support software provider Highspot has now raised a total of $122m, having secured additional funding from investors including Salesforce Ventures.

The cloud-based collaboration network increased its overall funding to $36m with a series B round backed by Microsoft's M12 subsidiary.

Johnson Controls-backed energy efficiency services provider Carbon Lighthouse has received $32.6m in a round that included $20m from Cox Enterprises.