The SSD technology provider's $30.4m round was led by SoftBank Ventures Asia and included Tencent Investment, BAI, Qualcomm Ventures and Toyou Feiji.

Telecommunications and internet group SoftBank has led a RMB200m ($30.4m) series D round for China-based solid-state disk (SSD) technology producer Memblaze through its SoftBank Ventures Asia subsidiary, DealStreetAsia has reported.

Tencent Investment, Bertelsmann Asia Investments (BAI) and Qualcomm Ventures also took part in the round, on behalf of internet group Tencent, media group Bertelsmann and mobile chipmaker Qualcomm.

The round was filled out by data storage and recovery equipment provider Toyou Feiji Electronics, which had already invested approximately $12m in…

Robert Lavine

Robert Lavine is special features editor for Global Venturing.