Consumer

The Altria-backed electronic cigarette maker has secured new funding according to a regulatory filing, as it prepares to fight an upcoming lawsuit.

SoftBank could invest $50m to $60m in e-commerce marketplace Snapdeal to lead a round that could possibly stretch to $100m.

The digital gifting platform, which counts KDDI as its largest investor, expects to raise approximately $51.7m when it floats in Tokyo.

Marico will acquire an additional 14.5% of fitness and wellness app developer Revofit over the next year having initially invested in 2018.

Rakuten has backed a $70m round for the hotel booking platform that came less than a month after it completed a $45m series B.

Motley Fool Ventures co-led UrbanStems' series B round to bring the online florist's debt and equity financing to more than $27m altogether.

Several corporate venturers have backed IoT company Terminus Technologies in a $283m series C1 round. This nine-figure round comes to confirm an upward trend in valuations of such enterprises we have been observing for years.

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

BBG Ventures, the female-focused venture fund formed by AOL, has set a $50m target for its third fund, the first to feature additional LPs.

Mediaset’s Ad4Ventures has contributed to an $11.2m round for kitchenware e-commerce company Springlane, almost a year after fellow CVC unit Tengelmann Ventures sold its stake.