The travel services platform has secured $12.3m in its most recent round, which followed a Grupo Palau, Palladium Hotels and Sabadell-backed round last year.

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

Sagawa Express, Japan Post and CRE have invested in a $11.7m series B round for the logistics platform developer that was led by Softbank.

Glovo, which counts several corporates as investors, has entered discussions with Uber and Deliveroo over a possible acquisition, while SoftBank could potentially provide equity funding.

HashPort Accelerator will help international entrepreneurs to enter the Japanese market, assisting them with fundraising and localisation.

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

Every day, Global University Venturing rounds up the smaller investments from across the university innovation ecosystem in its deal net.

Sony and JA Mitsui helped provide $15.8m for the Daiwa House-backed logistics technology developer to enhance its AI and robotics-powered supply chain and e-commerce technology.

The co-working space network increased the overall size of its series B round to approximately $14.5m, following two tranches – one of which was backed by Zhuhai Da Heng Qin.

Enterprise sustainability software developer Thinkstep has been bought by risk management consultancy Sphera after raising more than $23m from investors including Siemens.