Online video platform YY has spun out livestreaming subsidiary Huya with a $75m series A round led by Ping An Insurance.

CSquared, the company formed to extend Google's Africa-based Project Link fibre optics work, will receive up to $100m from Google, Mitsui, IFC and Convergence Partners.

Stanford University has contributed to a series A round for Neighborly, which focuses on providing public finance.

Dell Technologies Capital and Saudi Aramco Energy Ventures have added $3m to a round that already includes GE Ventures, Robert Bosch Venture Capital and Yokogawa Electric.

HTGF has backed a series A round for Cardior Pharmaceuticals, a heart failure-focused spinout of Hannover Medical School.

Boehringer Ingelheim and Bristol-Myers Squibb have backed a series A round for Cardior Pharmaceuticals, a heart failure-focused spinout of Hannover Medical School.

Novo has contributed to a series A round for Genoa Pharmaceuticals, which is aiming to get its IPF treatment into clinical trials this year.