Prosus took part in a round that pushed the total raised by the food and consumer goods delivery service to $856m.

The RTL Ventures-backed fashion e-commerce platform will use the $24.2m it has raised to grow internationally and boost its technology and product development.

Baupost Group has led another round for Wren Therapeutics, a spinout of Cambridge and Lund universities.

Draper Esprit has led a $20m series A round for Riverlane, which also attracted University of Cambridge and Cambridge Innovation Capital.

The close of the apprenticeship operator's series GV-backed series B round took its total funding to about $64m and follows its opening of a US office.

Sandvik has co-led a series A round sized above $40m for the manufacturing software developer, alongside government-backed and venture capital investors.

FinLeap and Talanx Ampega have returned to back a $30.4m round for their joint venture, which helps wealth managers digitalise business processes.

Each Friday the Global Corporate Venturing Deal Net rounds up the week’s smaller deals and tracks the emerging companies accessing corporate funds.

The early-stage investor backed by Porsche and Axel Springer now has $67m under management and will aim to add some 130 companies to its portfolio by 2022.

Every day, Global University Venturing rounds up the smaller investments from across the university innovation ecosystem in its deal net.