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The bespoke tailored clothes seller raised the money from Legend Holdings and IDG Capital, the latter of which invested $10m in the company in 2011.

Accelerators are increasing their startup impact through corporate backing. The rapid growth in numbers is raising questions of results and sustainability.

Early Stage Report 2015: Investors are open to new and good ideas from anywhere. Raising awareness about entrepreneurship in academia is paramount. Positive trends increasing business orientation, building networks with industry and entrepreneurs as well as co-operation. Challenges remain with expectation discrepancies.

Early Stage Report 2015: Nearly half of corporations look to universities for early-stage ideas. Many of the most innovative corporations look the most globally. Corporations running more accelerators and investing in the startups.

Flextronics was among the investors in a series B round that will enable Canary to expand the manufacturing line for its home monitoring system.

The connected toy producer has now raised $80m in total, securing series E funding from investors including a subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company.

SoftBank and Qualcomm will both make partial exits through the offering, after the fitness tracker producer set the range for its IPO.

SoftBank reportedly took a 20% stake in Coupang, Korea's largest mobile commerce company, boosting its overall funding to about $1.5bn.

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Movile now owns a majority share of iFood, which claims to be Brazil's largest online food ordering platform, and the money will support a doubling of its restaurant base.

Founded in Cape Town in 1915, Naspers began as an Afrikaans newspaper publisher but significant expansion, driven by a highly acquisitive business model, has seen the business develop into a multinational group of media and e-commerce platforms with a presence in over 130 countries worldwide and some 19,000 employees.