The payment card services provider, which counts Visa, Commerzbank and CreditEase as investors, will seek a valuation of almost $1.9bn in the round.

The Advance Publications-backed clothing rental service is now valued at $1bn, having received $125m from a consortium co-led by Franklin Templeton Investments and Bain Capital Ventures.

AT&T and Deutsche Telekom-backed wireless internet system developer Tarana added $60m from investors including EchoStar to close the round.

Microsoft subsidiary M12, Siemens' Next47 fund and Porsche all invested in the industrial 3D printer producer's latest round, which lifted its overall funding to $139m.

The WME and AM Only-backed music production platform has now raised approximately $100m in total, following a $57.5m round co-led by True Ventures and USV.

Sherlock Biosciences will develop molecular diagnostics tools co-developed by researchers at Harvard University and Broad Institute, including Crispr inventor Feng Zhang.

The series A funding comes after predictive data analytics companies MoBagel went through a resources-only edition of the SkyDeck accelerator last year.

Penguin Innovations has spun out of Purdue’s College of Pharmacy with a virtual cleanroom training program for pharmacy students.

Venture Partners at CU Boulder's efforts provided a significant boost for the national economy, generating nearly $721m of economic income for tech-transfer related activity.

The real estate services platform secured the cash at a $3.8bn valuation, with Lennar, SoftBank Vision Fund, Access Technology Ventures and new investor GV all participating.