American Express-backed payment services provider Lianlian has raised $146m from Sequoia Capital and Boyu Capital.

Delivery Hero-backed on-demand delivery services provider Rappi has secured $200m from investors including DST Global, achieving unicorn status in the process.

Rocket Internet-backed peer-to-peer lender Funding Circle plans to raise $385m in an initial public offering in which private investor Anders Povlsen is set to purchase a 10% stake.

The company has set its price range at $7.64 to $9.17 and is aiming to raise a total of $1.5bn from five cornerstone investors, including the previously disclosed $400m from Tencent.

Almi Invest and trade union Unionen have both returned with funding for Beactica, a drug discovery company based on Uppsala University research.

Air transit assistance system startup SkyRyse has accrued $25m in seed and series A funding from investors including Stanford University.

A month after Sutro closed an $85.4m series E round, the cancer drug developer, based on research at Stanford, has filed for a $75m initial public offering.

Soracom and Engie have committed capital to a $10m series A round for UnaBiz, which operates a low-power wide-area network in Singapore and Taiwan.