The hot pot and barbeque ingredient retailer, which counts Sanquan Food as an investor, has now secured more than $53m in the past six months.

The Globis-backed startup accelerator has chosen 12 participating startups for its sophomore cohort, three months after the demo day for the initial batch.

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

Every day, Global University Venturing rounds up the smaller investments from across the university innovation ecosystem in its deal net.

Prosus and Meituan Dianping both participated in the series I round, which valued Swiggy at $3.6bn but remains short of the $1bn the company had originally hoped to raise.

The online grocer raised funding from investors including Clas Ohlson to help it bolster its operations and build a new distribution hub.

Sompo Holdings, iRobot, Toyota AI Ventures, Union Tech Ventures, Happiness Capital, Samsung Next and Bloomberg Beta all backed the companion robot developer's series B round.

GoJek's accelerator has grown beyond its original Indonesia-focused remit and is now looking to find potential in the fast-moving consumer goods space.

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

Comcast Ventures has exited Hollar in an acquisition by Five Below, which is reportedly set to shut down the budget e-commerce platform.