Salesforce has made a strategic investment in the HR software developer, which has increased its total funding to $35m.

China Three Gorges, Cisco and Lenovo-backed 4Paradigm has closed a $700m series D round after more than a dozen backers threw their weight behind the enterprise AI developer.

Lufthansa’s portfolio company TripActions has attracted $155m in series E financing co-led by Andreessen Horowitz, Addition and Elad Gil at a valuation of $5bn.

Bennett Coleman & Co, Globe Telecom and Tencent are set to exit the story sharing community operator in a cash-and-stock acquisition transaction by Naver.

Hitachi Global Life Solutions, Sompo and NTT Docomo provided the cash for the creator of a family companion robot called Lovot, taking its total funding to $128m.

SoftBank Vision Fund returned to reinvest in the outsourcing marketplace operator at a valuation of almost $1bn to take its total funding to $310m.

New Hope Group's logistics spinoff has secured $92.4m in a round featuring Longfor Group's investment arm, Longfor Capital.

The last-mile delivery platform has amassed $121m in overall funding having completed a series E round featuring existing investor Google.

Tencent and Lenovo Capital are among the investors in the service robot developer’s latest round, which pushed its funding from the past 10 months to $77m.

Tencent took part in a round sized at nearly $100m for the English language learning platform, which counts Bertelsmann among its earlier investors.