Advance Publications has returned to invest in a Rise Fund-led series D round for digital education provider EverFi, less than a year after backing its $40m series C.

The WuXi PharmaTech-backed molecular diagnostics technology developer has raised $27m that will go to commercialising its IDgenetix product.

Comcast Ventures has returned for the student loan provider's $30m series D round, having backed its $20m series C last year.

The internet-of-things technology developer has pulled in funding from backers including Robert Bosch, Foxconn, Inmarsat, Swisscom, KPN and Orange.

Medtronic-backed spine imaging technology developer Ortho Kinematics has raised $18.6m from undisclosed investors.

Munich Re/HSB Ventures has led a series D round that also included Suncorp, Sompo Holdings and insurance technology producer Guidewire.

The social media company has scored a huge exit from news app Toutiao, exiting as part of a series D round that valued it at $11bn, 22 times the valuation at which Sina invested in 2014.

The deal featured both new corporate backers, including Delphi, Samsung and MediaTek, as well as returning investors Mitsui and Pegatron.

CreditEase's New Financial Industrial Fund was among the investors in a round that came less than six months after a $100m Ant Financial and UCar-backed series C.

Alphabet, through CapitalG, has led a $81.5m series D round for Looker, a data analytics technology producer that is also backed by Sapphire Ventures.