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Opt, NTT Docomo, Lilfull, Japan Best Rescue System and Proto Corporation could exit the classified listings platform, which has received approval for a Tokyo IPO.

The cross-border e-commerce marketplace has received an undisclosed eight-figure renminbi amount from Weibo, which will help boost its livestreaming capabilities.

Salesforce Ventures participated in a round that lifted the inventory management platform developer's overall funding to about $130m.

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The spice products supplier collected $14.5m from investors including Bitburger Ventures, which joins existing investor Döhler Ventures as a corporate backer.

The Tencent and Alibaba-backed social commerce platform suspended the dicussions last year but is now retrying for financing at a $6bn valuation.

Target-backed sleep product provider Casper has set a $100m placeholder target for its initial public offering, having been valued at $1.1bn early last year.

Alibaba has taken part in an $88.3m round for the community e-commerce platform that came five months after its merger with counterpart Niwoning.

Investors including SBI and Sugi chipped in to help Inagora, the operator of cross-border e-commerce marketplace Wandou, raise $48.4m.