The logistics platform has expanded its series C round to $45m, following an extension that added to an initial $30m tranche led by Tencent.

The corporate venturing arms of Citi and American Express reinvested in cognitive content generation platform Persado, boosting its overall funding to $85m.

Softbank Capital has returned for a $22m series C round for Reonomy, after previously leading the commercial real estate data provider's series A and B rounds.

The content publishing platform boosted its total funding to $34m in a Walt Disney-backed round that will support the expansion of its sponsored content activities.

The drone technology provider, which counts Intel Capital, GE Ventures and GV among its investors, has secured series C funding and a partnership with State Farm.

The Cambridge spinout previously raised a $2.5m series A round backed by the university and up to $3.4m in a 2014 funding round backed by Parkwalk Advisors.

Data centre management technology company Mesosphere took its total funding to $126m with a $73.5m series C round featuring the corporates as new investors.

The Bertelsmann-backed online recruitment service has now raised more than $60m in total and will use the money for product development.

Qualcomm joined existing backers including Intel, Cisco and SanDisk for a series C round that pushed the data centre software provider's total funding past $70m.

The heart imaging technology company took its overall funding to $135m in a round that included returning investor GE Ventures.