Virgin Group was joined in the round by Souter Investments, the private investment vehicle of Stagecoach founder Brian Souter, as well as venture firms ePlanet Capital and Hermes Growth Partners.

CyberAgent Ventures-backed Forkwell, a Japan-based jobs website for software engineers, raises more funds from Nippon Venture Capital.

Rakuten is joined by DCM and FirstMark Capital in the round backing the luxury goods website.

Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments (BDMI) provided the money to Dealvertise, which was founded in June by Berlin-based incubator Found Fair Ventures.

Vorwerk Direct Selling Ventures helps the US-based robot household chore company reach $35m raised in its eight year history.

The Business Growth Fund invests in its fifth deal in three months, backing Mexican street food chain Barburrito.

The communications company backs MySupermarket, which has two million users in the UK and has been growing at 100% a year.

Tencent and Korea-based games developer Wemade Entertainment join the corporate venturing unit of online media and development company CyberAgent backing the Korea-based mobile messaging application maker.

Jefferies has invested in social networking company Viadeo's $32m fundraising, while it is also exclusive financial advisor to Viadeo.

Intel Capital backs the social dating network's seed round along with CrunchFund and other investors.