Building on translational science from Stanford, Jasper has secured funding to progress its Amgen-licensed conditioning agent for patients awaiting stem cell transplants.

Each Friday the Global Corporate Venturing Deal Net rounds up the week’s smaller deals and tracks the emerging companies accessing corporate funds

The AI technology developer has now secured about $175m in total, and has added Chow Tai Fook to corporate backers including Lenovo, K11 and Red Star Macalline.

The retail AI technology developer received the capital in a SoftBank-led series A round that included Toyo Kanetsu Corporate Venture Investment Partnership.

Hui-Gene collected $14.2m from investors including WuXi AppTec and the Mayo Clinic-backed Huimei Healthcare Management to progress its gene therapy pipeline toward clinical testing and production.

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

Each Friday the Global Corporate Venturing Deal Net rounds up the week’s smaller deals and tracks the emerging companies accessing corporate funds.

SIG Asia took part in the $11.7m second tranche of the compliance software developer's series A round, taking it to $19.2m.

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

University of Tokyo Edge Capital has led a series A round set to support on-demand bus transport company Swat's push into additional Asian markets.