African video streaming service iRoko has now raised $44m since it was founded in 2010, and media group Canal+ will help it scale its French-language content.

Intel Capital returned to back a round that took database technology developer MariaDB's overall funding to almost $40m.

In May 2014, Rakuten led a $1m seed round for ESTmob.

The listings and group buying platform, formed through a merger between Dianping and Meituan, has confirmed the amount but not the investors.

Hanwha-backed solar module maker Ten K Solar has now raised more than $77m in financing after securing $25m from a Goldman Sachs alternative energy fund.

Switzerland-based Novimmune, which counts Fracht as an investor, has now raised almost $230m and is working on cancer, inflammatory and autoimmune disease treatments.

University of Tokyo Edge Capital backs fingerprint payment system creator Liquid to help it develop its product for possible use at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.

Salesforce and Nippon Life helped take the business card management platform's funding to more than $36m since 2009.