The Foxconn-backed municipal waste management software provider has raised $12m in a round led by Lifeline Ventures that boosted its total funding to more than $30m.

Skincare brand Silk Therapeutics has secured $11m in series A3 funding, raising capital from Kraft Group and Lear Corporation among others.

Amazon reportedly paid as much as $100m to buy Body Labs, whose scanning technology could help accurately predict the best fit for clothing customers on its portal.

The Kyoto University spinout has been valued at $114.7m in a cash-and-shares deal that gives University of Tokyo Edge Capital a partial exit.

Ex-Western Digital Capital director Aymerik Renard has joined VC firm Hardware Club, which reached a $28m first close of its fund in June, as a general partner.

Mark Barrett, who has held business development roles at Johnson & Johnson and Sanofi Genzyme, has taken an entrepreneur-in-residence position at Frazier Healthcare Partners.

Tencent led the medical imaging startup's series A+ round, which increased its overall funding to almost $29m.

Smartphone maker Xiaomi and venture firm Shunwei Capital have signed a term sheet to co-lead a series B round that will value the social media app developer at up to $70m.

The biotech spinout will use the cash to fund clinical development and proof-of-concept for its lead candidate targeting influenza by 2018 and 2019.

Foxconn has contributed to a $20m round for robotic arm technology developer Kinova that was led by BDC Capital.