General Electric and National Football League previously provided funding through the GE NFL Head Health Challenge.

Jolly Information Technology has contributed to a series C round worth tens of millions of dollars for logistics services provider Fengxiansheng.

Amgen Ventures and Alexandria Real Estate Equities have invested $6m in GNS Healthcare, which already counts Celgene, Cambia Health and Mitsui as investors.

The point-of-sale car finance platform has raised $10m from strategic partner Ford Motor Credit Company as well as Crosslink Capital and Lerer Hippeau Ventures.

The underwater drone developer, a spinout of University of Tsukuba, raised the funding in a Beyond Next Ventures-led round that included several corporates.

Mobile payment platform Ezetap, which counts American Express as an investor, has now raised $51m in total, after securing funds in a JS Capital-led round.

University of Massachusetts Medical School spinoff Apic Bio has raised seed capital from The Alpha-1 Project as it looks to develop a treatment for Alpha-1 Antitrypsin deficiency.