Insurance firm Annexus will fund insurtech, fintech and software startups through a venture capital firm called Annexus Ventures.

Droit has received money from investors such as DRW, Wells Fargo and Goldman Sachs to expand internationally and will start by opening an office in Singapore.

Salesforce Ventures returned for the fundraising platform's series C round, having contributed to its $18m series B last year.

Online payment technology company Conketa has secured beverage producer Femsa for a $6.6m round.

Transamerica and Aegon's venture capital unit was among the investors in a round of undisclosed size for pension platform and ProSiebenSat.1 Accelerator graduate Fairr.de.

Power Financial Corporation, IGM Financial and Great West-Lifeco have provided the capital for Canada-based fintech fund Portag3.

Digital payment platform developer NanoPay secured the funding in a round featuring Goldman Sachs' Merchant Banking Division.

Transamerica has helped health insurance management platform Hixme close its latest funding round at $14.1m, lifting its total funding to $26.6m.

Comcast Ventures co-led a round that boosted the total raised by the small business loans marketplace to more than $50m.