Zentera Therapeutics has been spun off by oncology therapy developer Zentalis Pharmaceuticals with a series A round led by Tybourne Capital Management.

Every day, Global University Venturing rounds up the smaller investments from across the university innovation ecosystem in its deal net.

Led by UCLA’s Sri Kosuri, Octant is working on drugs for complex diseases and will use the series A funding to further develop its platform.

Harvest Investments supplied more than $14m for Xi Ping, a developer of smart digital advertising technology backed by Guangzhou Daily and COL Digital Publishing.

Naspers has reportedly contributed to a round for the shipping services portal sized at up to $20m, with the cash earmarked for hiring and general business purposes.

Guangzhou Honest Dairy's yoghurt brand has spun off with $56.3m in a round led by Matrix Partners China that will fund the strengthening of its production resources.

Capital One Ventures was among the participants as e-commerce focused cybersecurity provider Source Defense sealed $10.5m of series A funding.

OSI has returned to back Oxford indoor mapping spinout Navenio as the latter expands the market for its hospital workforce allocation system.

Holmusk, developer of a behavioural healthcare evidence platform, has completed a $21.5m round co-led by corporate venturing unit Optum Ventures.

CPE, GGV Capital and Sequoia Capital China supplied the funding for JD.com's industrial maintenance subsidiary at a $2.15bn valuation.