Baidu has provided Robot++ with pre-series A funding following an angel round backed by a Tsinghua incubator in April 2018.

Chalmers Ventures has again supplied smart lock supplier Parakey with funding after investing alongside IoT and wireless tech firm Qamcom in 2016.

The AI-based contextual insight service has closed a $33.6m round that included Stanford University, taking its total funding to almost $56m.

Parking technology and services provider ParkJockey has received an undisclosed amount from SoftBank at a reported billion-dollar valuation.

HomeToGo has acquired Recruit-backed holiday home rental platform Tripping for an undisclosed sum, while also raising an amount likely to be about $120m.

Alcoholic beverage producer Constellation Brands plans to provide $100m for female-led companies through its newly formed Focus on Female Founders initiative.

The fruit and vegetable-focused social commerce platform was incubated by MissFresh and has just raised $100m in an SIG-backed round.

Kazanah Nasional is reportedly blocking emergency funding for the Qualcomm-backed AR technology developer, which has raised some $137m while trying to locate a sustainable business model.

Tokyo's experiential robot developer Telexistence has won funding from a investors including the university's Innovation Platform and a host of corporates.

Kozo Keikaku Engineering and BayBG were among the investors in a round that took the indoor mapping technology developer's total funding past $45m.