The transport optimisation software provider has closed a series B round that included Alibaba and existing investor Verizon Ventures.

Blockchain technology developer Orbs has added some $15.4m in cryptocurrency to the $118m it raised in May, and expects the funding to last seven years.

The software automation technology developer added Dell Ventures and Orr Partners to its investor list in a $22.5m round that took its total funding to almost $33m.

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

GV was among the participants in a series B round that boosted the artificial intelligence-equipped bassinet developer's total funding to $33m.

The molecular product technology provider followed a nine-figure, SoftBank-led round two years ago with a series C led by the corporate's Vision Fund.

Just over a year after its $200m series B round, Pokémon Go developer Niantic is raising another $200m from investors including Samsung and Axiomatic Gaming.

Agilent and Lam Research participated in a $30m round for UCSF's DNA analysis spinout, Mission Bio, whose existing shareholders include Stanford-StartX Fund.

Qualcomm Ventures, Syngenta Ventures and NeoPlux all contributed to a $34.7m round that took the farm-to-restaurant food sourcing platform's equity funding to more than $48m.

TU Dresden spinout DenovoMatrix hopes to commercialise a method for effectively cultivating stem cell production.