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

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.

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.

The indoor farming specialist intends to expand rapidly in 2019 after raising $90m in a round led by existing investor GV.

Modern Times Group has invested in app demo development platform AppOnboard through its MTGx digital subsidiary, after backing its April 2018 series A round.

The smart device developer, which counts SEB and Xiaomi as backers, has raised tens of millions of dollars in its third funding round this year.

Ecovacs Robotics invested in the emotion-recognition technology developer as part of a series B round, participating as an existing backer.

The fruit and vegetable-focused social commerce platform was incubated by MissFresh and has just raised $100m in an SIG-backed round.