Twitter, Live Nation and Aruba-based VenueNext has added $15m to its coffers in a series B round led by Causeway Media Partners in order to expand into new verticals.

Keolis and Valeo have contributed to a funding round for Navya, as the driverless car technology developer prepares to expand across the US, Europe and the Gulf region.

SoftBank led the microbe engineering technology company's latest round, bringing its overall funding to $174m in less than 18 months.

The upscale bedding provider took its total funding to more than $22m with $18.3m in series B funding from investors including Channel 4's Commercial Growth Fund.

Madefire, developer of a moving-picture comic book app, plans to move into 3D with help from visual effects producer Framestore, which invested through its Framestore Ventures unit.

The machine intelligence technology producer will add the Microsoft Ventures investment to a round already including IBM and Intel, and which now totals more than $25m.

Off-peak restaurant table booking service Eatigo has now raised $15.5m in total after securing capital from TripAdvisor subsidiary TheFork.

L Catterton, the private equity firm backed by LVMH, has led a series B funding round for Home Chef, which operates a meal kit delivery service.

The HNA subsidiary has obtained the cash from another HNA division, HNA-Caissa Travel Group.