Yanolja has collected $180m in funding from Booking Holdings and Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund GIC, valuing the short-term room rental service at more than $1bn.

Itochu was among the investors in a series B round that electric vehicle rental service Dishangtie closed at $100m earlier this year.

SoftBank has selected four senior management members – Chris Cooper, Patricia Menendez-Cambo, Francisco Sorrentino and Lee Bocker – for its Latin America Fund, SBGI subsidiary and new entity SoftBank Tech Hub.

Faurecia, SAIC, Kardan, Allied Group and Cyphertech all took part in the round, which increased connected car security platform GuardKnox's overall funding to $24m.

Twitter is expected to lead the Xiaomi-backed round with an investment of more than $50m, valuing the social networking platform at up to $650m.

Auth0, CircleCI and Stripe have jointly launched a support scheme dubbed Go_SaaS to help startups promote software-as-a-service platforms.

Founded in November last year by the former CEO of ZTE, 5G application developer Hongshan IT has secured $14.5m in funding.

Each Friday the Global Corporate Venturing Deal Net rounds up the week’s smaller deals and tracks the emerging companies accessing corporate funds.

The Vietnam-focused venture fund has received an undisclosed amount from Mirae Asset-Naver Asia Growth Fund through a strategic partnership.

The Time Internet-backed online content platform has increased its total funding to more than $20m with a round led by venture firm Qiming Venture Partners.