Consumer

Sphero, which was developed at Disney Accelerator, Tech Stars

Chain, in collaboration with Visa, Nasdaq, Citi Ventures, Capital One, Fiserv and Orange

Deborah Hopkins, Citi

International Data Group was among the investors providing $30m for the hyperlocal mobile marketplace app developer, helping to raise its overall capital to more than $50m.

The online fashion jewellery retailer has now raised $35m altogether, after Hubert Burda and DSW contributed to a $20m funding round.

Fantasy sports leagues meet gambling in Boom Fantasy's $1.4m in seed funding, backed by Stanford StartX.

The city of Albuquerque supports L2B, an accelerator supporting spinouts by national laboratories and state research universities.

The virtual reality headset maker has attracted funding from investors including film studio Huayi Brothers, which participated as an existing backer.

Rogers-backed loyalty scheme tool FiveStars has obtained $50m in series C capital from both new and returning backers, taking its overall funding to $105m.

The series B round closed by Ping An-backed Lufax is the biggest deal so far in what has been a bumper month for China's online finance sector.

The rest of the 100 (in alphabetical order): Maggie Yang, executive director, mergers and acquisitions department at Baidu