SoftBank led the machine learning techology startup's series B round, which comes less than a year after its $15m Tencent-backed series A.

Verve, The Universal Music-backed marketing service formerly known as StreetTeam, will use its $18.5m series B round to support international growth.

The ophthalmology-focused drug developer, which is backed by pharmaceutical company Novo, plans to use the money to further test its lead product candidate.

UK-based GoCompare has made its first strategic investment outside its home country, in a $14.5m round for Middle East price comparison platform Souqalmal.

Seven corporates, including returning investors GE, Saudi Aramco, Robert Bosch and Dell, have contributed to the data analytics software developer's series B round.

On-demand delivery platform Glovo has confirmed a $35.2m series B round co-led by Rakuten Capital that took its total funding to approximately $43m.

The bridge round will enable New York University spinout Spin Transfer Technologies to fund development of a commercial product based on its temporary data storage technology.

Internet company Tencent has led an $11m series B round for digital farming platform Phytech that included agribusiness Syngenta.