Tencent, Priceline, Xiaomi, Fosun and Wanda are all in line for exits, as reports indicate the local services platform will seek $3bn in a US flotation.

Investors including Lenovo, Haier and Legend Capital contributed to a series C round for travel services provider Phoenix Travel Worldwide.

Northwestern University spinout Exicure, formerly known as AuraSense Therapeutics, has added $11.2m to its latest funding round with contributions from Purple Arch Ventures.

The industrial 3D printing platform developer has received funding in a round featuring investment vehicles for Trumpf and Eos.

Alibaba has led a $27m tranche that doubled MariaDB's series C round to $54m and took its overall funding to $93m.

The Nvidia-backed autonomous vehicle technology developer has secured $18m in series A funding to increase its vehicle fleet and expand its team.

The Stanford-StartX fund-backed cloud computing optimisation platform has brought in $30m in a round that took its total funding to $140m.

The bacterial infections drug developer, based on research at Harvard Medical School, has gone public.

Unternehmertum Venture Capital Partners has taken part in a $12m series A round for 3YourMind, an additive manufacturing spinout of Technical University of Berlin.