Visa led the payment card issuing platform's latest round, which included two more corporates: CreditEase and existing investor CommerzVentures.

PTB Ventures and Accel have co-led a series A round for Callsign, an authentication platform backed by digital consultancy Reply.

GV and New Enterprise Associates have co-led a round for the quantum computing technology developer based on University of Maryland and Duke University research.

Goldman Sachs Investment Partners led a $25m series B round for the budget hotel chain that follows a Qualcomm Ventures-backed round in June 2016.

GV and New Enterprise Associates have co-led the quantum computing technology developer's latest round, after the latter had supplied it with $2m of series A capital.

Dell Technologies Capital and Intel Capital invested in a $30.7m round that increased the total raised by the data centre networking technology provider to $120m.

The language learning platform, spun out from Carnegie Mellon University, increased its total funding to $108m with a series E led by Drive Capital that valued it at $700m.

Existing backers Comcast and Qualcomm were joined by investors including AGL and Liberty Mutual for a series C round that took the smart lock developer's total funding to $75m.

The Alphabet-backed language learning platform increased its total funding to $108m with a series E round led by Drive Capital that valued it at $700m.

Cybersecurity software provider 360 Enterprise Security Group was among the participants in a series A round for data security startup SkyGuard.