Students on dental, veterinary and physiotherapy courses gain an academic lift with personalised development plans thanks to Liverpool University spinout Liftupp.

The Alphabet-backed payroll services provider formerly known as ZenPayroll has now raised more than $135m in overall funding and is valued at $1bn.

Publisher Tangel and IT training provider Tarena have contributed to a funding round for the online education platform, which claims to have 14 million users.

The Times Internet-backed logsitics company has so far raised $125m, and has begun talks with new investors for a round that would value it at $850m.

We continue our look at the defining trends in corporate venturing this year, including sports and online gaming, new media consolidation and funding for online education providers.

Amazon has led a $22.5m series B round for Housejoy that included Qualcomm, and which followed $4m of series A funding in June.

The fund created by Axiata and government-owned fund Mavcap, has already committed a total of $3m and expects to provide follow-on funding.

Business-to-business logistics startup BlackBuck previously secured series A funding in a Flipkart-backed series A round in July.