SetSquared member Duel has added UBEF II to investors including London Co-Investment Fund as it looks to drive adoption of its advocacy marketing platform.

USC Marshall Venture Fund supplied an undisclosed amount of pre-seed funding for talent booking platform Engage, which was founded by two USC students.

Backed by Stanford-Start X Fund and a trio of corporates, Poynt has now received more than $128m in total for its payment processing terminal and software business.

Existing investors SoftBank Vision Fund and Dexxon both returned for a $200m round that will help drug developer Roivant Sciences expand its range of subsidiaries.

Nasdaq Ventures, Macquarie Capital and UST Global have helped cybersecurity technology developer XM Cyber close a series A round, bringing its total funding to $32m.

Furniture renovation and services platform Shengong007 has received $25m in series C funding from Alibaba, with which it is building offline retail stores.

Memory technology supplier and New York University spinout Spin Memory has secured $52m in a round featuring Applied Ventures and Arm.

Crowdfunding platform Readyfor has unveiled its first funding round, with investors including Globis, since launching from the wings of Tokyo internet services spinout Ohma in 2014.

Osaka University and Kyoto Institute of Polymer Science have both put money behind automated patent investigation platform Gold IP, taking its funding to $4.6m altogether.

University of Tokyo-founded VC firm Deep 30 has pumped money into apparel industry services provider Liaro, which will use the cash to ramp up recruitment and R&D.