Network technology provider Altiostar has closed a $114m series C round after Rakuten added to Qualcomm Ventures and Tech Mahindra's contributions.

The on-demand ride provider plans to expand from France into Central and West Africa following an Allianz and Mobivia-backed funding round.

Corporate joint venture Echo Health Ventures led a $33m funding round that will help fund the home care access platform's expansion in the US.

GV led a $58.5m round for the heart disease drug developer, which is advancing research conducted at Harvard University and Broad Institute and has a partnership in place with Harvard spinout Beam Therapeutics.

Alibaba returned to reinvest in Megvii as part of a series E round that valued the facial recognition software provider at more than $4bn.

TigerMed-backed brain monitor developer Neural Analytics boosted its total funding to $66m in a series C round led by existing investor Alpha Edison.

UMC Utrecht molecular diagnostics spinout Genome Diagnostics has won funding from Ampersand Capital Partners and will work with the private equity firm to spur business growth through activities including M&A.

Osage University Partners has invested in LunaPBC, the public benefit corporation responsible for operating the community-owned LunaDNA genetic and health data collection platform.

UCLA spinout Neural Analytics increased its total funding to $66m as it prepares for further testing of its robotically-assisted brain health monitoring platform.

PayPay, the mobile payment platform launched by SoftBank and Yahoo Japan last July, has received $419m in additional funding from the former.