The public relations group’s newly formed VSC Ventures unit has raised $7m from undisclosed limited partners and will target climatetech startups.

Existing investor Lennar returned to back the modular homebuilder in a round led by Gigafund, bringing its overall funding to over $71m.

The Prosus and Benesse-backed online skills learning marketplace priced its shares at the top of their range to raise approximately $421m.

Wells Fargo Strategic Capital took part in a $52.5m round for digital mortgage platform developer Maxwell while corporate-backed music distributor UnitedMasters closed a $50m series C.

Cybersecurity software developer Sonrai Security, small business insurance provider Coterie and fashion brand Love, Bonito each raised $50m in corporate-backed rounds.

Salesforce Ventures, Slack Fund, HubSpot Ventures and Okta Ventures all returned to back the commercial partnership platform developer.

Voltage regulator producer Empower closed a $45m round featuring Samsung Catalyst Fund while Swisscom and Six-backed spend management software provider Yokoy raised $26m.

Koch Industries and Harel Insurance and Finance helped the e-commerce fulfilment technology provider close a series C round that took its overall funding to $336m.

Prosus took part in a round which reportedly boosted the agricultural services platform developer's valuation to $450m and its total funding pst $160m.

Chalo has acquired the corporate-backed shuttle bus aggregator, which had raised roughly $120m from investors including BCC, Amazon, Dentsu, Toyota, Sojitz, SIG and Compound Partners.