Maana recently won GCV’s inaugural award for energy-tech corporate venture capital (CVC) investment of the year, presented during its Venture Houston conference in November. Now, Maana has gone one-stage further and won the Sub-$50m Investment of the Year award across all industries.

Backed by Stanford-StartX Fund, marketing intelligence platform Knotch has now secured at least $31.5m in total funding and will now pursue technology upgrades and and internal expansion.

IP Group put up $5.4m for Cambridge fraud detection spinout Featurespace’s latest round to bring the company’s overall funding haul to $70.9m.

Accenture Ventures and existing investor First Data both participated in a round that increased the banking platform developer's total funding to $42m.

Worldpay-backed fraud detection software provider Featurespace won $32.9m from investors including commercialisation firm IP Group to bring its overall funding to $70.9m.

Cisco Investments took part in the customer relationship platform developer's series C round, which increased its total funding to approximately $74m.

BMW, Jaguar Land Rover and Porsche all backed a series B round for the roadside assistance app developer, whose early investors include Verizon, Allianz and ATD.

The blockchain technology developer will use the proceeds from the Nasdaq Ventures-led round to commercialise its platform for mortgages, private equity and syndicated loans.

Hearst Ventures invested in Geophy as the commercial real estate appraisal platform eyes expansion in the US, Europe and Asia Pacific.

Johnson & Johnson Innovation – JJDC has delved into the cosmetics market, leading a series D round for K-Beauty product supplier Memebox, which has raised $190m altogether.