The crowdsourcing platform, backed by CyberAgent, Digital Garage, Dentsu and Itochu, has secured about $14.5m in funding since it was founded in 2011.

The staffing company's corporate venturing fund, launched in March this year, is sized at $62.4m, it told TechCrunch.

Marketing research spin-out Consumer Insights is launched by the New Zealand university.

On-demand laundry service Edaixi, which is operated by laundry franchise Rongchain and backed by Tencent, has raised series A funding, four months after its seed round.

Crowdsourced delivery system Renren Kuaidi, which lets it users sign up to be a courier, has raised $15m in a series A round featuring internet portal Tencent.

The office furniture supplier was among the backers for LiquidSpace's $14m series C round, which boosted its overall funding to about $27m.

SoftBank followed up a $1.4m seed investment in the mathematics learning company last year by leading its series A round this time around.