Consumer

The grocery e-commerce marketplace’s latest round was co-led by Alibaba, and the proceeds will be used to boost its supply chain capabilities and product range.

Rabo Corporate Investments helped the vegan media and food provider boost its Griffith Foods-backed round by $200m and take its overall funding to $535m.

The $27.5m round was led by PayU and included another of the e-commerce platform's existing investors, Info Edge Ventures, as well as Google.

The SoftBank-backed automotive e-commerce platform developer ACV Auctions has gone public in an IPO. The company is part of the vehicle marketplace space which has seen much attention from corporate venture investors.

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

Every day, Global University Venturing rounds up the smaller investments from across the university innovation ecosystem in its deal net.

Tencent helped the grocery delivery service become the quickest European company ever to achieve a unicorn valuation.

Main Sequence Ventures has thrown its weight behind Nourish’s $11m funding round, which was co-led by Horizon Ventures.

Samsung has promoted Dede Goldschmidt to run the vehicle, whose previous co-heads Shankar Chandran and Francis Ho have begun a new fund with its former chief strategy officer, Young Sohn.

Q&A with Ricardo Latournerie, senior investment analyst, AC Ventures

The SoftBank and Alibaba-backed sports memorabilia retailer doubled its valuation to $12.8bn in a late-stage round that took its total funding near the $2bn mark.