Led by World Innovation Lab, the round also featured Itochu Corporation and follows earlier series A and A+ investment by IDG Capital Partners.

Sofinnova Ventures has provided a $15m extension to the series B round, which is already backed by Novo and Novartis.

The laundry service provider secured cash from detergent maker Libai Group just over a year after raising $100m from backers including Baidu and SIG China.

The newly formed Sodexo Ventures joined existing backer Orange Digital Ventures to help the point-of-sale software developer expand internationally.

Cisco Investments has added to the $23m in series B funding the customer support technology provider raised from backers including Microsoft, Salesforce and Intel in June.

Emotional intelligence technology developer Cogito secured a re-up from Salesforce Ventures just one year after it closed a $5.5m series A backed by the unit.

Existing investor Bloomberg Beta came back to invest in the data science platform developer, after contributing to a $3m round last year.