Mahindra Resorts & Holidays, part of the Mahindra Group, has purchased an 18.8% stake in Holiday Club Resorts Oy to increase its European presence in the vacation ownership industry.

Japan-based Star Festival has received $27.4m from one of the country's largest office supply mail-order companies as part of a partnership agreement.

Online retailer Fanatics has raised $170m in funding in an Alibaba-led round that will enable it to expand overseas.

The deal provided exits for NetDragon, which received over $1bn in the deal, and IDG Capital Partners.

Nordstrom will invest an undisclosed amount in the online gift service, which raised $5.5m last year, as part of the partnership agreement.

The shopping app company, which raised $50m last Friday, is just one of several companies using personalisation and curation to drive increased use and monetisation.

The online clothing brand is seeking to quadruple its offline presence after closing a Nordstrom-backed series D round that took its overall funding to almost $130m.

The e-commerce company, which has received almost $80m from investors including American Express and Kering, is set to raise the funding at a $1.2bn valuation.

Shopping app Wish, which uses algorithms to learn customers' likes and dislikes to create wishlists, has raised $50m in a third round of funding.

Myntra will invest up to $1m in graduates of the incubator, which is the first to be launched by an India-based e-commerce company.