Consumer

Rakuten is joined by DCM and FirstMark Capital in the round backing the luxury goods website.

The multi-track element signifies Astellas is developing its innovation toolkit - including R&D, venture-backed entrepreneurs and licensing - so various units can work relatively independently on similar medical problems and leave it up luck and judgement as to which one might work and then be distributed if successful enough.

Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments (BDMI) provided the money to Dealvertise, which was founded in June by Berlin-based incubator Found Fair Ventures.

Vorwerk Direct Selling Ventures helps the US-based robot household chore company reach $35m raised in its eight year history.

The Business Growth Fund invests in its fifth deal in three months, backing Mexican street food chain Barburrito.

For US-listed IBM, which coined the term era of smart, its own value will be created from amplifying innovation and creating technology and a platform for others to help increase the abilities of individuals and institutions.

The $79m oversubscribed up-round for Quantenna, comes after corporate venturing units played a part in putting the wi-fi chip company on a path to success.

The communications company backs MySupermarket, which has two million users in the UK and has been growing at 100% a year.

Tencent and Korea-based games developer Wemade Entertainment join the corporate venturing unit of online media and development company CyberAgent backing the Korea-based mobile messaging application maker.

Jefferies has invested in social networking company Viadeo's $32m fundraising, while it is also exclusive financial advisor to Viadeo.

Intel Capital backs the social dating network's seed round along with CrunchFund and other investors.