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.

Point72 Ventures led a $15.4m round for Reinventure-backed human resources management platform developer Flare that will support hiring.

Qualcomm has returned to support a $60m round for CargoX, having also participated in the trucking services platform's $20m series C last year.

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

Meituan Dianping's forthcoming initial public offering, which is expected to be $4bn in size, will feature Tencent as a cornerstone investor.

Discern will commercialise a deception tracker nicknamed Avatar designed to initially be deployed at border security and based on research at Arizona.

The Square-backed event ticketing management software provider has disclosed almost $360m in venture funding.

Alibaba spinoff Koubei has joined forced with the corporate's newly acquired Ele.me, with more than $3bn from Alibaba and SoftBank.