Grupo Globo and Rival contributed to a $21.7m round for the online ticketing platform, whose past investors include Qualcomm and MercadoLibre.

Wag has agreed to buy back almost 50% of its shares from SoftBank, who invested $300m last year but which is selling at a loss.

Sweetome has acquired corporate-backed short-term accommodation platforms City Home and iYoujia, with Tencent, Alibaba, Tujia and Trip.com scoring exits.

Gree-backed Streem has been bought by Frontdoor, which will integrate its augmented reality-based remote home services technology into its own offering.

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Rogue Venture Partners-backed Streem has been bought by Frontdoor, which has plans for its augmented reality-based remote home services technology.

Fung Capital-backed cross-border services business Flow won the backing of American Express Ventures in a round that will fund platform development and hiring.

Language teaching app Duolingo has received series F funding from existing backer CapitalG and is now valued at $1.5bn.

Private equity firm LLR Partners has invested in the Actua and Independence Health-backed customer engagement software provider, taking its total funding to $58m.

Qualcomm Ventures contributed to a $60m round for last-mile delivery service Shadowfax that was led by Flipkart at a $250m valuation.