Consumer

Amex, Comcast and Amazon-backed grocery delivery platform Instacart has added $271m to its latest round and is now valued at almost $7.9bn.

The music festival ticket marketplace plans to expand into North America and Asia having secured $10.5m from investors including Channel 4's Commercial Growth Fund and InMotion Ventures.

Online food delivery platform iFood has secured another $500m in a round featuring majority owner Movile and fellow corporate Naspers.

Boehringer Ingelheim and Helsinn helped oncology vaccine developer Amal reach the second close of a series B round that now totals $32.7m.

Furniture renovation and services platform Shengong007 has received $25m in series C funding from Alibaba, with which it is building offline retail stores.

Innovative region: Brazil

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.

GCV Analytics defines the financial services sector as encompassing payment technologies and cryptocurrencies, personal finance and wealth management, insurance, alternative lending, crowdfunding, client and risk analytics, firms and funds, social investing and others.

SoftBank was among the investors in a round for Alibaba's recently merged local services platforms Ele.me and Koubei that valued it at $30bn.

The Tencent, Bertelsmann and Ping An-backed owner of social commerce platform Mogujie is looking to raise $200m in the offering.

SoftBank Ventures Korea, which previously led a $2.1m seed round for Rael six months ago, has returned to contribute to a $17.5m series A alongside GS Retail Fund.