
Saudi Aramco Energy Ventures is preparing a $500m second fund following on from a first fund of the same size, launched by the unit in 2012.
The Tencent and Alibaba-backed social commerce platform suspended the dicussions last year but is now retrying for financing at a $6bn valuation.
Alibaba has taken part in an $88.3m round for the community e-commerce platform that came five months after its merger with counterpart Niwoning.
News Corp and its real estate advertising arm, REA Group, supplied $70m in convertible note financing for the property listings platform.
Investors including SBI and Sugi chipped in to help Inagora, the operator of cross-border e-commerce marketplace Wandou, raise $48.4m.
Line Ventures backed a $36.2m round for AI-equipped e-commerce platform TimeBank that will help the startup acquire new users and partners.
Frasers Property has expanded its share of the co-working space operator to 22.2% by acquiring $12.4m of additional stock in a secondary share purchase.
Managing director Paul Ark is departing from Siam Commercial Bank after overseeing its SCB Digital Ventures unit for nearly four years.
Each Friday the Global Corporate Venturing Deal Net rounds up the week’s smaller deals and tracks the emerging companies accessing corporate funds.
The funding will make up part of a round expected to close at $500m in the next two months and valued the food listings and ordering platform at $3bn.