American Express and Foxconn have contributed to a series B round for Abra, bringing the company's total funding to more than $35m.

The automated AI developer has received $7.2m in an SEB and Robert Bosch-backed round ahead of a planned expansion in Europe, Asia and the US.

SBI Group and Siam Commercial Bank contributed to the round, which will fund the mobile banking app developer's international expansion.

The marketing platform has secured series B financing from a consortium including Shutterstock and will use the cash to expand its team.

NetSuite-backed marketing software provider DirectScale will put the capital into product development, sales and marketing.

The telematics technology provider's series B round included Salesforce Ventures, and took its total funding to more than $47m.

Returning investor GV took part in a Wellington Management-led series B round that will support assessment of its lead oncology drug candidate.

The genetic testing service, spun out from City University of Hong Kong, took its total funding to approximately $53m with a round co-led by Alibaba and Beyond Ventures.

The Johns Hopkins spinout has passed a clinical milestone to trigger the final part of a series B round backed by Osage University Partners.

Stanford spinout Forty Seven is working on an immuno-oncology treatment to fight the overproduction of proteins which inhibit the immune response to cancer.