Consumer

The community-focused e-commerce platform has raised series A funds from investors including Ping An Ventures and SIG Asia.

Tyson Foods and General Mills are in line for exits after meat substitute producer Beyond Meat filed to go public in a $100m initial public offering.

Legrand has acquired its portfolio company Netatmo for an undisclosed amount, three years after the corporate led the smart home device maker's $32m series B round.

The number of flotations of companies that have previously received corporate backing has been growing over the past couple years. More interestingly, it has been companies from the life sciences sector that beat other sectors in going public.

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

Comcast Ventures was among the investors that backed Italic as it launches its factory-to-consumer e-commerce platform.

Amex, Comcast and Amazon-backed grocery delivery platform Instacart has added $271m to its latest round and is now valued at almost $7.9bn.

The music festival ticket marketplace plans to expand into North America and Asia having secured $10.5m from investors including Channel 4's Commercial Growth Fund and InMotion Ventures.

Online food delivery platform iFood has secured another $500m in a round featuring majority owner Movile and fellow corporate Naspers.

Boehringer Ingelheim and Helsinn helped oncology vaccine developer Amal reach the second close of a series B round that now totals $32.7m.

Furniture renovation and services platform Shengong007 has received $25m in series C funding from Alibaba, with which it is building offline retail stores.