The bespoke tailored clothes seller raised the money from Legend Holdings and IDG Capital, the latter of which invested $10m in the company in 2011.

Flextronics was among the investors in a series B round that will enable Canary to expand the manufacturing line for its home monitoring system.

The connected toy producer has now raised $80m in total, securing series E funding from investors including a subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company.

SoftBank and Qualcomm will both make partial exits through the offering, after the fitness tracker producer set the range for its IPO.

SoftBank reportedly took a 20% stake in Coupang, Korea's largest mobile commerce company, boosting its overall funding to about $1.5bn.

Movile now owns a majority share of iFood, which claims to be Brazil's largest online food ordering platform, and the money will support a doubling of its restaurant base.

American Express Ventures, the corporate venturing unit of the eponymous financial services company, has tapped into what could be one of the fastest growing consumer IT investment stories in the past year, Instacart. Its move into the convenience grocery delivery segment has helped it win the sub-$50m investment award, highlighting new ways that financial services companies can strategically tap into the disruption of the retail sector.

In the last week of September 2014, the financial news wires were white hot as Yahoo and Softbank-backed Alibaba priced its IPO at $68 per share, initially raising $21.8bn, before the China-based e-commerce company reported that it had sold additional shares in the company, making the listing the biggest in history.