The used car e-commerce company, which has secured $50m from backers including DriveTime, is set to raise the funding from strategic and institutional investors.

Snapchat is reportedly investing an undisclosed sum in Jello Labs, the parent company of shopping app Spring, which recently raised $25m.

Intel Capital looks to have participated in a $23m series B round for the DMGT-backed lifestyle media company, which has now raised more than $30m altogether.

The produce e-commerce company has also signed an agreement to harness JD.com's resources in order to expand in its home country of China.

Hubert Burda invested the money, which boosted the vertical media network's total equity funding to $186m since it was founded in 2004.

The e-commerce company, which includes Naspers and IDG among its shareholders, has now raised almost $3bn since it was founded.

Shengda Mining and Dahu Acquaculture have participated in a $242m funding round for online dating platform Baihe.com, which is preparing to go public this year.

British Columbia University spin-out Cloudburst Research acquired by Google.

Originally reported as equity funding, the $300m raised by Deutsche Telekom-backed wearable product maker Jawbone last month has been revealed to be debt financing.