Consumer

BASF Venture Capital has joined Alchemist Accelerator as a limited partner to develop digital technologies in the chemical industry.

Delivery Hero is leading a $62.2m investment in Zomato, an online food listings and ordering platform already backed by Ant Financial.

Children's clothing subscription service provider Rockets of Awesome has collected $19.5m in its series C round, which included the CVC unit of Hubert Burda and was led by Foot Locker.

Novel Group-backed lingerie manufacturer ThirdLove has closed a $55m funding round after investors including L Catterton pre-emptively approached the company about investing.

MIT spinout Ginkgo Bioworks has set up Motif Ingredients with $90m in series A funding provided by investors including Louis Dreyfus Company and Fonterra.

Ginkgo Bioworks has spun out Motif Ingredients with $90m in series A funding provided by investors including Louis Dreyfus Company and Fonterra.

Innovative region: Germany

The fourth annual Global Corporate Venturing & Innovation (GCVI) Summit in Monterey, California on Wednesday and Thursday, January 30-31 by reporters Kaloyan Andonov, Edison Fu and Thierry Heles

Sector focus: Services

This is our data snapshot based on last month’s investment activity. The charts and tables have been generated by our data platform GCV Analytics.

The Siasun-backed augmented reality glasses maker has increased its overall funding to $31m, following a $16m round that included investment from iQiyi.