Consumer

Stanford StartX-backed Farm Hill secures $3m in funding round, boosting the food delivery company's total to $4m.

Danone Manifesto Ventures is set to make its first investment, entering talks with food brand Michel et Augustin, reportedly to acquire a stake of up to 40%.

Naspers made its fifth investment in the mobile commerce company, which has just invested $4m in online ticketing platform Sympia.

Virtual Reality Venture Capital Alliance is helmed by HTC Vive and made up of 28 partners including Colopl and Legend Holdings with a total of $10bn in deployable capital.

The online organic grocery subscription service has added new funding to the $30m Scripps Network-backed series A round it closed last year.

AW Virtual Mall, a visual-based e-commerce spinout of Allied Wallet, received the money from payment processor ePayWeb Asia at a $1bn valuation.

Direct selling company Vorwerk's corporate venturing vehicle made its second investment in Juniqe as part of the affordable art platform's series B round.

Four investments totalling $126m to be made by Michigan University's endowment are disclosed through the agenda for its Board of Regents meeting.

The cereal producer has founded a corporate venturing unit named Eighteen94 Capital that will fund food, ingredients, packaging and enabling technology startups.