Online specialty food retailer Goldbelly has raised cash in a series B round led by Union Square Hospitality's Enlightened Hospitality Investment vehicle.

Fosun RZ Capital supplied $5m for trucking services provider LetsTransport, which reportedly already counts GMO, Flex, CBC Group and Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance as backers.

Alibaba will merge its online food delivery subsidiary Ele.me with its local services spinoff Koubei, following earlier reports that SoftBank was joining Alibaba to invest about $3bn of funding in the new business.

Ant Financial has returned to put another $210m into Zomato, after purchasing $200m worth of primary and secondary stock in the food delivery company earlier this year.

Sun protection product developer Nanosive has been launched by Truffle Capital with a licence from Yale University.

Evolv Ventures will be headed by ex-Lightbank partner Bill Pescatello and will fund startups developing technology for the food industry.

Internet and e-commerce company DMM.com views its new venture capital fund as complementary to its M&A investments.

Citi Ventures has joined several existing investors led by Omers Ventures for a round that valued travel booking platform Hopper at $750m.

The Xiaomi-backed rice cooker maker has secured a nine-figure renmini sum in a round that included NGP Capital.

Fresh from leading the flower delivery service's last round, Burda Principal Investments has come back for a $19.5m round that will fund entry into new markets.