Koubei and Ant Financial joined asset manager CDH Investments for catering service provider Xiyun International's series A round.

The University of Leicester spinout will put the funding towards recruitment and moving its synthetic antibody operation into larger premises.

The BBVA-backed Propel Venture Partners was among the investors in what the digital banking startup described as Brazil's largest ever series A round.

Comcast Ventures has led a seed round for the short-term accommodation provider, which has secured $40m across three rounds.

Google's Gradient Ventures unit was part of a series A round that will enable the biological research startup to boost its headcount.

Upbound, the developer of a platform enabling clients to run services across disparate cloud computing platforms, has raised funding in a GV-led round.

Yamaha Motor, Honeywell Ventures, Tekfen Ventures, ABB Technology Ventures and Taylor Farms Ventures have all backed the robotics developer.

The autonomous vision technology developer raised the cash in a GM Ventures-led round that included fellow corporate venturing unit Intact Ventures.

Auriens-backed in-home care services provider Cera has raised $17m in equity and debt to expand across the UK and into Germany.