Exor Seeds will invest in technology startups, with PartnerRe and Exor each providing half the capital for the fund.

The acquisition comes less than a month after Adaptive Insights, whose shareholders include Salesforce, filed for a $100m initial public offering.

Workday has paid an undisclosed sum for talent development platform operator Rallyteam, previously backed by Cornerstone OnDemand and Wilson Sonsini Goodrich and Rosati.

Starship Technologies has raised an additional $25m in seed funding after Daimler led an initial $17.2m investment in January 2017.

Kunlun-backed Nashwork has attracted $78m in a series B+ round backed by Sino-Ocean Group.

Autohome has made a strategic investment in used car auction platform Tiantianpaiche, whose backers already include SoftBank, SIG, Tencent and Bitauto.

Reculta was founded by a former recruitment secretary at IIMA to help universities and companies streamline the process behind making offers.