Advance Venture Partners has led a funding round for cloud security company HyTrust, while existing shareholders Cisco, Intel, Fortinet and VMWare all returning.

The Washington State University spinout has raised nearly $7m so far for the round, which has a target size of $16m.

E-Scape Bio, a spinout of Gladstone Institutes, has achieved a final close of its series A thanks to commitments from Osage University Partners and several corporates.

UMC subsidiary Fortune Venture Capital has teamed up with INCJ for a $7.1m secondary investment in flat-panel display technology developer CerebrEx.

New Oriental Education and Technology Group has participated in a round for Yamibuy, which sells Asian consumer items to North America-based customers.

The semiconductor manufacturing component maker secured $23.5m, with Samsung Ventures, JSR Corporation, Aliad, Applied Ventures and Intel Capital all investing.

The figure includes previously reported tranches of $120m in December and $60m in April 2017, the former featuring conglomerate Dalian Wanda.

Carmaker Toyota's research division has put $100m into a unit called Toyota AI Ventures and disclosed its first three portfolio companies.

Malware protection software developer Lastline took its overall funding to almost $50m in a $28.5m round backed by Barracuda Networks, WatchGuard Technologies and NTT Finance.

Osage University Partners has taken part in a funding round for Lastline, a cybersecurity technology developer based on research at multi-university initiative iSecLab.