Tencent invested in the audio streaming platform as part of a round that valued it at about $3.5bn post-money.

The co-working space provider has secured $1bn in convertible note financing from long-term investor SoftBank despite heavy 2018 losses.

ICL spinout Cagen raised an undisclosed sum from Imperial Innovations and UKI2S to commercialise protein nanocages for shielding therapeutic payloads.

Walmart put up $320m of the cash for grocery delivery service Dada-JD Daojia while the rest came from another existing investor, JD.com.

Blood sampling technology developer Essenlix was co-founded by Stephen Chou, a professor of electrical engineering at Princeton University.

SEB subsidiary SEB Venture Capital contributed to a $12.7m round for the software performance-monitoring technology developer, which has raised $35m in total.

Rail data analytics technology developer Perpetuum has added Rail Supply Growth Fund to a group of shareholders that already includes IP Group and Parkwalk Advisors.

Cigna, HCSC and Novo have taken part in a $50m funding round for MDLive, a telehealth platform already backed by Sentara and Sutter Health.