Tencent came onboard as the digital business banking developer raised cash which will be put towards growing its customer base.

Yale and Columbia-linked Certik has secured $24m in additional funding, just one month after securing $37m in its series B round.

Tencent and Unilever Ventures returned for a round valuing the accounting and invoicing platform developer at nearly $600m.

SBI Group, E.Sun, Systex and AppWorks all contributed to the crypto trading technology provider's pre-series A round.

SoftBank’s Vision Fund 2’s first investment in Africa is set to help the mobile payment app expand its reach.

SoftBank’s Vision Fund 2 contributed to the e-invoicing company’s series D round.

DriveWealth has been valued at $2.85bn in a series D round featuring Softbank Vision Fund 2, Citi Ventures and FTX.

Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase’s corporate venturing arm is among the investors set to boost the payment platform’s expansion.

Over the past few years, roughly a fifth to a quarter of all corporate investors whose deals we track appear to be newcomers.

M12 backed three deals in recent days, including a $50m series D round for Split.io that also featured fellow corporates Atlassian and ServiceNow.