Sectors

The SoftBank and Kakao-backed locally-focused e-commerce platform raised the money in a series C round co-led by Goodwater Capital and Altos Ventures.

Ping An Global Voyager Fund has led a $35.4m series C round for the dental aligner producer that will drive continued expansion efforts across Europe.

Yahoo Japan’s YJ Capital unit was among the investors in a $27.9m round for the blockchain technology provider that will go to improving its products and hiring talent.

NTT Docomo-backed Wasabi plans to use the proceeds from the $30m round to expand its hot cloud storage service in international markets.

Video messaging platform developer Loom, which counts Slack as an investor, closed a $28.8m round that reportedly doubled its valuation to $350m.

Amgen Ventures, Intermountain Ventures, Merck Global Health Innovation Fund, Roche Finance and Ascension Ventures all took part in the cancer data provider's latest round.

Offshore wind technology developer Principle received funding from Tokyo Gas, which joined existing investors including EDP Ventures, Repsol and ASM Industries.

Illumina, General Atlantic and Viking Global have supplied $70m for Ginkgo Bioworks, an MIT spinout that has now raised more than $789m altogether.

Every day, Global University Venturing rounds up the smaller investments from across the university innovation ecosystem in its deal net.

SoftBank Vision Fund 2 has led a $500m funding round for the driverless vehicle software developer, which is based on work by Didi Chuxing going back to 2016.

The Legend Capital-backed industrial testing technology provider has filed to raise up to $98.8m when it floats on Shanghai’s Star Market.