Joymode, which rents out equipment for curated leisure experiences, secured $14.4m in the Naspers Ventures-led series A round.

Naspers Ventures, the corporate venture capital subsidiary of media and e-commerce group Naspers, led a $14.4m series A round on Wednesday for US-based leisure equipment rental service Joymode.

The round included undisclosed existing investors and follows a $3m seed round in late 2016 led by Homebrew and backed by Lowercase Capital, Founders Collective, Collaborative Fund, TenOneTen Ventures, Slow Ventures, Sherpa Ventures and angel investors Scott Belsky and Emil Michael.

Joymode leases high-value equipment for specialised leisure events such as camping,…