Consumer

Tencent has once again thrown its weight behind online food delivery platform Swiggy for a $43m extension that also featured Samsung Ventures, bringing the round's total size to $156m.

The pet-focused e-commerce platform received $47.5m from SoftBank's Latin America fund and will use it to meet increased customer demand.

Farm Credit Canada provided more than a third of the capital as food and beverage-focused District Ventures Capital closed its fund at $70.8m.

Digital media company Bytedance has co-led a $14.1m round for Narwal Robotics, which produces autonomous floor cleaning robots.

Each Friday the Global Corporate Venturing Deal Net rounds up the week’s smaller deals and tracks the emerging companies accessing corporate funds.

Every day, Global University Venturing rounds up the smaller investments from across the university innovation ecosystem in its deal net.

Sistema has participated in a $150m financing round for e-commerce platform developer Ozon having acquired the stake held by fellow corporate MTS last year.

Cethik-backed artificial intelligence chipmaker NextVPU has received $42.3m from unnamed investors to scale its research and development activities.

Fast will put the funding into recruitment and the international roll-out of its rapid e-commerce login and checkout system.

Mann+Hummel was among the investors for a $16.4m round that brought air filter subscription service Second Nature's overall funding to nearly $35m.