Hearst Ventures was among the participants in a round that will fund the roll-out of Plum Guide's high-end holiday accommodation rental platform to 12 more cities.

The Mitsui-backed glucose monitoring technology provider will use the series E proceeds to fund the commercialisation of its device in the US.

GreenMark’s dental treatments will be developed in partnership with University of Michigan, which has backed the company’s two-tranche seed round through its Mints Fund.

The firm’s portfolio fell to a $61.8m net loss during 2018 amid difficult market conditions for listed small-cap businesses and the consolidation of its former peer Touchstone Innovations.

Existing investor Tencent has returned for a $100m series C round that valued the cross-border financial remittance service at more than $1bn.

The online travel booking platform has collected $44.3m in a round featuring Dunamu as well as a reported $30.7m investment from Kakao.

The CNPG-backed oncology therapy developer boosted its overall funding to $70m in a round backed by Eli Lilly and CICC Capital.

The employee management platform developer has completed an M12-led round that took its overall funding past the $40m mark and will use the cash for hiring.

Amgen Ventures, MRL Ventures Fund and Pharmaron contributed to a round that almost doubled the total raised by the bone marrow disease drug developer since 2012.

NetApp, GE Ventures, Cisco Investments and HPE all chipped in as data storage technology provider Portworx boosted its overall funding to more than $55m.