Insurance broker NFP's corporate venturing vehicle was among the investors in a round that will accelerate commercialisation of Hound Labs' advanced breathalyser.

The hybrid cloud software provider has now raised more than $60m in total, following a second consecutive round to include Hewlett Packard Enterprise.

Huohua Siwei more than doubled its total funding to $160m after attracting $85m in a round that featured an investment vehicle for Longfor Properties.

The workspace operator has now raised more than $220m altogether, following a round featuring Equinox, TF Cornerstone and Granite Properties.

Alphabet-backed microfinance app developer Tala secured the series D funding at a reported $750m valuation, with PayPal among the participants.

Mori Trust, Itochu and existing backers Bloomberg Beta and Rocket Internet all invested in workspace operator Knotel, which has now raised $560m to date.

Ping An Global Voyager Fund co-led H2O.ai's $72.5m series D round, bringing its total funding to $147m in support of its open-source AI model development platform.

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

Twitter has led a $100m series D round for social media app ShareChat that valued the multilingual social network operator at $650m.

Bertelsmann India Investments has returned to back online lending marketplace Lendingkart as part of a series D round that took its overall equity funding to at least $143m.