PayPal and Rakuten-backed savings platform Acorns Grow is looking to raise more than $100m in a corporate-led round that will value it at $700m.

Amex, Comcast and Amazon-backed grocery delivery platform Instacart has added $271m to its latest round and is now valued at almost $7.9bn.

XinChao, the owner of a network of more than 700,000 elevator advertising screens, has secured funding in a round led by strategic partner Baidu.

SNCF has invested in BlaBlaCar, the buyer of its bus transport subsidiary, Ouibus, in a round that took the carpooling platform's total funding to $450m.

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

The carmakers have supplied $250m in connection with an electric vehicle promotion deal, and the round already includes Toyota, Ping An, Microsoft and Citi Ventures.

Tencent is contributing $250m to a larger funding round reportedly being raised by online education platform Yuanfudao at a valuation of $2.8bn.

Data analytics software provider Quid has secured $37.5m in a round led by Relx subsidiary REV Ventures that included Lixil and Salesforce Ventures.

Virtualisation technology provider Scale Computing has reached the $21.2m Lenovo-led first close of a round expected to close at $34.8m.

Grocery e-commerce platform Grofers is in talks to raise $100m to $150m in a SoftBank Vision Fund-led round that could value it at up to $650m.