Consumer

The Shea Ventures-backed social fashion marketplace has hired underwriters for an initial public offering that would follow almost $150m in funding.

Self-storage service MakeSpace is targeting $30m for its latest round having already secured funding from new strategic partner Iron Mountain.

Oncology therapeutics developer Fusion Pharmaceticals closed a $105 round, featuring several corporate investors. The deal forms part of the growing broad oncology space, which has seen much attention from corporate venturers in recent years.

The fast food chain has completed a five-day bootcamp which forms part of Chipotle Aluminaries Project, its food and agriculture-focused accelerator.

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

NTT Docomo Ventures and Novel TMT invested in the inventory management technology provider as it gears up to commercially launch its first product.

Alibaba-backed luxury goods marketplace 1stdibs has gained Groupe Artémis as an investor in a round it said took its primary funding to $170m.

Sonae IM joined Octopus Ventures, Sequoia Capital and Pereg Ventures to lift retail management platform CB4's overall funding to approximately $23m.

Alibaba is investing $50m in the grocery e-commerce platform at a $1.2bn valuation to retain its position as the company's largest shareholder.

The SoftBank´s Vision Fund participated in a $300m round of robotics tech provider CloudMinds. This is a deal in the wider robotics and drones space, which has seen much growth in recent years

The fresh food retail chain plans to use the proceeds from the Tencent-led series B round, which included Meituan Dianping's Longzhu Capital unit, to expand to 1,000 stores this year.