Q&A with Ryota Suzuki, senior investment manager, Sony Innovation Fund by IGV

The Beenos, Toyota Tsusho and Digital Garage-backed second-hand car marketplace has secured the first portion of a $200m round at a reported $1.2bn valuation.

Wipro has returned to back a $47.6m second close for the Amazon, L’Occitane and Times Group-backed beauty service provider’s series C round at a reported $300m valuation.

Naver Financial Corporation co-led the grocery ordering app operator’s series D round, which included fellow corporate venturer Z Venture Capital.

500 Startups and TDK Ventures share insights on how today’s multinationals are catalysing innovation.

Denso took part in a $71m series D round for artificial intelligence technology provider Blaize while inflammatory disease drug developer Aristea closed a $63m Novo and Arena-backed round.

SoftBank Vision Fund 2 led a round for the IoT tagging technology developer that was backed by several other corporate investors.

ANZi has been renamed 1835i Group and will operate as an independent company with sole funding from banking parent ANZ.

Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group's MUFG Innovation Partners unit has followed its 2019 debut fund by putting the same amount into a second vehicle.

SAP.io took part in email software provider Sedna's $34m series B round while Byju's picked up BCC-backed learning app developer Toppr in a deal reportedly sized at about $150m.