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Osaka spinout Cuorips has added $14.7m to its coffers from investors including vehicles for the institution and Kyoto University, just three months after collecting $19.3m.

Autonomous taxi developer Voyage had received a total of $52m from investors including InMotion Ventures and Chevron Technology Ventures.

The database software provider more than doubled its valuation to nearly $5.8bn in a series E round that boosted its cash on hand to about $500m.

Softbank Investment Advisors and existing investor GV contributed to a series C round boosting the drug discovery platform developer's overall funding to over $640m.

The Keio University-backed digital medicine developer has secured $19.3m from a consortium including several Japanese corporations.

Dai-ichi Life, Itochu Technology Ventures, Koshidaka and Toyoshima CVC were among the investors that backed the medical therapy booking platform’s $19.3m round.

Legend Capital was among the investors in a round of undisclosed size for Kunlun, an AI chip subsidiary of Baidu, at a valuation of about $2bn.

Baxter Healthcare was among the investors in the $65m first close of a private placement the biosimilar drug developer has pushed to $100m.

Alphabet subsidiary GV was part of a consortium in a round that will fund the progress of the precision medicine developer's lead drug candidate into the clinic.

The Harju Elekter-backed ultracapacitor producer will develop automated production technology with funding secured from the German government.

Alibaba Cloud's stake in the digitalisation technology provider now stands at over 31% following the latter's $61.5m series A round.