GUIA will develop a mine monitoring system to help prevent dangerous accidents.

New World Development subsidiary K11 has backed avatar development platform Oben, which counts Tencent, SoftBank and Dunan as backers.

36Kr's co-working space spinout has closed a $92.3m funding round featuring new and existing investors such as IDG Capital and Gobi Partners.

Spin Transfer Technologies has completed a $22.8m bridge facility after receiving commitments worth $10.3m to add to $12.5m from commercialisation firm Allied Minds.

Industrial and commercial drone developer Autonomous Control Systems Laboratory raised $18.8m in a round led by Toyota-backed Mirai Creation.

DNA sequencing technology developer Stratos Genomics, a spinoff from Stratos Group, also counts Roche Ventures as a backer.

The automotive alliance plans to supply $200m for startups and open innovation schemes out of Alliance Ventures in the next year.

The e-commerce design platform Base has secured $13.3m in a Money Forward-backed round that took its total funding to about $38m.

FluroSat has also received funding from cotton industry-focused public-private partnership CRDC for its remote crop imaging platform.