Consumer

Dave Smith was a former GCV Powerlist award winner at Corning and sat on the board of X Display and Versalume.

Bilibili’s esports spinoff has secured $27.8m through a round led by the corporate-backed Zhejiang Chuangxiang Culture Fund that included B-Ray Media.

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

The JF Shea-backed social commerce marketplace priced its shares above the range in an offering valuing it at about $3bn.

Weber has bought the smart oven producer, one of its portfolio companies, in a deal that allows Amazon Alexa Fund to exit.

The newly formed DX Ventures starts with more than $60m and nine portfolio companies under managing director Duncan McIntyre.

Rich Products Ventures has helped the meal delivery service secure $10.3m to hike its overall funding to $26m.

Group buying service Xingsheng Youxuan raised the money at a $5bn valuation and has reportedly secured upwards of $1.8bn in the past 18 months.

CyberLink has reinvested in the beauty product sampling service through a series C round that was led by Goldman Sachs.

The furniture-focused e-commerce platform secured the funding in a round co-led by SoftBank as it looks to expand its physical footprint and launch own-brand products.

Business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce marketplace Udaan extended its series D round with a $280m tranche, featuring Tencent. The company is one of the comparatively few B2B e-commerce deals we have reported, despite the relative size and importance of the B2B in it.