WuXi Healthcare Ventures has led a first funding round for LifeMine Therapeutics that also featured GV and Merck Ventures.

Ant Financial and Kunlun Tech are among the investors set to exit as the online lending platform, which has filed to go public in the US.

SoftBank will take a 5% stake in the online insurer, investing up to $550m, in an initial public offering in Hong Kong that could top $1.5bn.

Lancaster University spinout Relative Insight has received an undisclosed sum from a government-backed investment vehicle for its linguistics-based market research product.

Corporate venturing units Axa Strategic Ventures and InnovAllianz joined Idinvest Partners and Kima Ventures to invest $7.2m in encryption software developer Tanker.

The surgery robotics developer has added $26m from investors including ABB Technology Ventures to complete its series A round, 14 months after closing the first tranche.

Corporates Ginkgo Bioworks and Bayer have launched a plant microbiome technology startup that is equipped with $100m in series A funding.