Yibuyongche has raised $19m in series A funding which will support its expansion within China and the deployment of 100,000 electric vehicles over the next three years.

Based on research conducted at University of Oxford and Netherlands Cancer Institute, Scenic Biotech has raised $7.3m to commercialise technology that tackles diseases on the genetic level.

An unnamed Chinese e-commerce company, reportedly Alibaba or JD.com, has taken part in a series A round for autonomous driving technology developer AI-Drive.

Merck Ventures, which previously led a seed round in 2015, has returned to lead a series A round that featured fellow existing shareholder Novo Seeds.

The Stanford spinout has collected series A funding from investors including Johnson & Johnson and Osage University Partners.

A host of corporates, some of which had not been disclosed previously, have put in a total of $25m of funding into Grabit.