Siemens' Next47 subsidiary has participated in a series B round led by Mubadala Ventures that boosted the collaborative shipping platform's overall funding to near $100m.

Grab has added $50m from Kasikornbank to a round sized at $2.7bn, following a $250m investment by Hyundai and Kia earlier this week.

Salesforce-backed IT service platform developer Samanage has now raised $74m altogether, following a $30m investment by Morgan Stanley Expansion Capital.

In-game services marketplace Overwolf has raised $16m in a round led by Intel, the company with which it formed a $7m fund earlier this year.

Global Corporate Venturing’s inaugural award for ‘Energy-tech Corporate Venture Capital (CVC) Investment of the Year’ was announced on November 8th during the Venture Houston conference.

African American-focused hair supplier Mayvenn has secured $23m in a series B round led by media holding company Essence Ventures.

Lloyds took a 10% stake as it led a $23.5m series A round for Thought Machine, gaining access to the fintech developer’s cloud-based banking platform.

GlobalFoundries and Intel both took part in a $24m series A round for Ayar, which will use the money to commercialise its light-based data transmission technology.

Fujifilm, Olympus and TechMatrix were among the participants in a round that boosted medical imaging technology spinout LPixel's funding to $35m altogether.

Itochu, SBI Investment, Nippon Gas, UFI Futech and SMBC Venture Capital all invested as mobile payment technology developer Pring raised $11.4m.