The Ohio State spinout raised an additional $900,000 to advance its speed control gear technology for industrial robots.

Several existing shareholders including Woodford have returned to back a $17m funding round for Metalysis, which produces metal powders for 3D printing.

Deerfield Management and Vanderbilt University have launched Ancora Innovation with $65m in capital to support early-stage life science research and back resulting spinouts.

The robotic leg developer secured the funding in a series A round featuring Sony Innovation Fund that will support product development.

Recruitment portal Seek co-led a $6.1m round that included existing backer AMP, with the capital to go to hiring and research and development.

Jointown Pharmaceutical Group and Lilly Asia Ventures were among the investors in the genetic sequencing technology developer's series A+ round.

Existing investor Legend Capital returned for an eight-figure series A round that will fund the electric bicycle sharing service's expansion.

Tencent, Kunlun, Duomi and Shunya-backed video broadcasting app Inke has filed to go public after raising some $65m in funding.

A Giant Interactive fund took part in the Ocean Link-led round, which increased the co-working space provider's overall funding to about $70m.