Planday, a workforce collaboration platform backed by Metro, has closed a $40.8m series C round led by SEB Private Equity.

Samsung has put its weight behind a $50m series C round for Puls, which connects consumers with technicians specialising in smart devices.

Legend Capital and Shell China backed a series C round for industrial e-commerce platform Zhenkunhang, which raised a total of $85m last year.

Asahi Broadcasting, Colopl, WFLE, Asahi Shimbun and Nagoya Broadcasting Network helped provide $11.7m for the influencer marketing platform.

The corporate's strategic investment fund led a round that valued the consumer credit platform at $500m, taking its total funding to $142m.

Principia Biopharma, whose drug discovery platform is based on research at UCSF, has filed for an $86.3m initial public offering having raised $50m earlier this month.

Musashi Seimitsu invested $6m as part of a Rothschild Bank-led series C round that reportedly valued SoftWheel at almost $140m.

GlaxoSmithKline-backed Principia Biopharma has filed for an $86.3m initial public offering having raised $50m earlier this month.

Two corporate players backed gene therapeutics firm Orchard Therapeutics in a round that may indicate an uptick in investments in genetics-related tech for this year