Sectors

Empower Education Online has pulled in $265m through a round that included Tencent and SIG, its earlier backers including New Oriental, TAL Education Group and ATA.

The community buying service has raised money for the fourth time this year, this time in a series C3 round co-led by existing backer Alibaba.

Burda Principal Investments was among the participants in a series C round for the Chinese-focused food and groceries delivery service.

Vastai Technologies, a developer of artificial intelligence-focused system-on-chip technnology, has disclosed a series A round co-led by Kuaishou.

Siemens-backed software tracing platform developer Logz.io pulled in cash through a Pitango Growth-led round to bring its overall funding above $120m.

Gree, Opt, NEC and Sony are among the shareholders that will exit the asset management platform operator, which is set to go public in a $26.5m offering.

FMR has bought a secondary stake in fashion and beauty marketplace Nykaa, which already counts Max Group and TVS as shareholders.

Property engine developer Homesnap agreed to a $250m cash acquisition by Real estate data provider CoStar Group. This is a notable exit in the space in which corporates have been actively investing over the past five years but there have not been many exits.

Fazz Financial and Grab are among the limited partners for BRI Ventures' Sembrani Nusantara Fund, which is halfway to a $21m close.

The Codexis-backed SynBio Innovation Accelerator will target early-stage biotech developers and has made Arzeda its first portfolio company.

Heat regulation material developer Carbice picked up capital from Toyota AI Ventures and Downing Ventures that will support recruitment.