IDG Capital and Carlyle Group have committed to purchasing newly issued shares in publicly-listed real estate online portal SouFun.

The American Express-backed mobile payment technology provider has now raised $35m since it was founded in 2011.

Stock trading platform Futu5 has welcomed internet company Tencent back for a second funding round, following a March 2014 $10m series A.

Numis led the series C round and will assist crowdfunding platform Crowdcube in creating a service enabling users to purchase shares in companies going public.

Commerzbank's venture capital unit has contributed to a $20m series B round for short-term business loans provider Iwoca, which is also backed by Beyond Digital.

Visa is seeing its corporate venturing strategy, which is tightly tied to online and mobile payment technology, begin to pay off.

Visa has formed a strategic partnership with Stripe in addition to backing a series D round, raised at a $5bn valuation, that included American Express.