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Travel and accommodation booking service Booking Holdings committed $200m to ride hailing app Grab alongside a partnership deal

This is our data snapshot based on last month’s investment activity. 
The charts and tables have been generated by our data platform GCV Analytics.

Media holding WndrCo led a $295m round raised by the mobile VPN provider AnchorFree, part of the broader and vivid cybersecurity space.

Uber has struck a strategic partnership on autonomous car research with Toyota, which featured a $500m investment from the auto manufacturer at a $72bn valuation.

Since the beginning of 2017, Global Corporate Venturing (GCV) Analytics has tracked and seen a number of companies backed by China-based internet company Tencent go public in Hong Kong and the US.

Two corporate players backed gene therapeutics firm Orchard Therapeutics in a round that may indicate an uptick in investments in genetics-related tech for this year

Large rounds tend to be raised by companies based in the US and China, more so than other parts of the world. China-based businesses also tend to raise much larger rounds.

Last-mile delivery company Glovo raised $134m in a round backed by online retailer Rakuten and restaurant operator AmRest. The latter contributed $29m of the total funding.