Legend Holdings has backed the insurance brokerage whose existing shareholders include Tsinghua Holdings and Fosun.

Smartphone maker Xiaomi led the fintech platform's series A round which featured Harvest Partners and existing backer Beijing Qingquanshi Investment Center.

Rocket Internet has returned for a $17m funding round, just over a year after contributing to a $26.4m round, with the money going towards acquisitions of rivals including Move24.

Berjaya Group and Sinar Mas have co-led a series A round for microlending platform Oriente.

SK Holdings is set to invest $240m in the copper foil manufacturer as the corporate pursues a strategy to increase its ecosystem of electric vehicles-related companies.

Ireland Strategic Investment Fund has led a $200m series C round for Wuxi NextCode after the latter’s acquisition of ISIF and GV-backed Genomics Medicine Ireland.

American Electric Power, Chevron, Daimler, BMW and Siemens are among of consortium of backers that also included Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund GIC.

University of Lisbon-founded biotherapeutics developer is targeting infectious, metabolic and intestinal conditions, and has collected $2.8m from a fund run by Seventure Partners.

IP Group is among the investors in x-ray technology developer Ibex Innovations’ latest round after backing a $3m round for the company in 2014.

University of Edinburgh’s Old College Capital has returned to back energy storage developer Sunamp to take the company’s total to $8.8m.