The $25.3m Jibo raised will fund its first range of interactive personal robots, following a $2.3m crowdfunding campaign.

TOM Group and Ule co-led the series A round raised by the big data-focused marketing technology provider.

Online courier platform YunNiao, launched in Beijing in September, has received funding from backers including Shanda Interactive as it seeks to expand.

Peer-to-peer lending platform Harmoney has raised $10m in a round in which e-commerce company Trade Me acquired a 15% stake.

Harvard spin-out Qstream receives $4m series A backing for predictive analytics technology.

The food technology company has already raised $20m from investors including Campbell's Soup, and Google is reportedly set to invest in a $100m series C round.

Retrosense Therapeutics, which is working on a treatment for vision loss, has raised $6m from investors including medical diagnostics company Nerveda.

Cancer immunotherapy company Surface Oncology's $35m Eli Lilly, Amgen and Novartis-backed series A round demonstrates the recent success of oncology companies in the venture capital market.