Consumer

FPT, SoftBank, EContext Asia and Beenos were part of a consortium that committed $51m in funding to online marketplace operator Sendo.

The social parenting community operator counts Alibaba, Fosun, Tal Education and Jumei as shareholders and is seeking a $5bn valuation.

Innsbruck’s customer chatbot spinout Onlim has raised funding from tourism tech firm Feratel and the university ahead of a series A round scheduled for next year.

Last week, Global Corporate Venturing reported several interesting and sizeable transactions in the e-commerce space from around the globe.

Large rounds tend to be raised by companies based in the US and China, more so than other parts of the world. China-based businesses also tend to raise much larger rounds.

Walmart put up $320m of the cash for grocery delivery service Dada-JD Daojia while the rest came from another existing investor, JD.com.

Naspers invested the first $150m of the cash this summer, it revealed, and has pledged another $350m to bring the e-commerce platform's total funding to $975m.

Alibaba spinoff Koubei could merge with another subsidiary, Ele.me, as SoftBank Vision Fund enters talks to lead a round of up to $5bn.

E-commerce marketplace Linio had raised $230m from investors including Tengelmann, Access Industries and Rocket Internet.