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The community grocery retailer raised about $143m in a Taikang Life-backed series D round that will be used for the expansion of its warehousing and product range.

GV exited video shopping platform developer Packagd in September through an acquisition by Facebook, it has recently emerged.

Wefox Group, a Germany-based digital insurance provider, extended its series B round, closing $235m

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

The eyewear retailer raised the series G funding from SoftBank Vision Fund at a $1.5bn valuation following several secondary deals in the past three years.

The Fosun and Jointown Pharmaceutical-backed mother and babycare e-commerce platform received the money in a round led by Anchor Equity Partners.

The managed apartment provider secured $100m in series B and debt financing in August, from investors including SoftBank Capital NY, it disclosed this week.

Bertelsmann India Investments and Sistema Asia Fund returned to invest in a round that reportedly valued the online food retailer at up to $300m.

A2A has formed a corporate venturing arm with $78m in funding, including a commitment from Polytechnic University of Milan’s university venture fund Poli360.

This taster from the World of Corporate Venturing survey shows which technologies corporate venturers have their eye on

Global Corporate Venturing has just closed its annual survey, which forms a definitive overview of the industry. The World of Corporate Venturing 2020 report will be published in January.