Consumer

Country Garden and Poly Group-backed Real Estate Industry Chain Empowerment Fund led a series B round for the vacuum cleaner producer that included Xiaomi.

Urmin Group helped the tea provider raise $23.5m in a round that increased its overall funding to more than $39m.

Channel Talk, Segari and Borneo are all among the companies that have raised corporate venture capital, while Tepco celebrated an exit with the acquisition of Me:New.

Kakao Investment has led a series C round for the Samsung Ventures-backed automated accommodation provider.

Legend Capital-backed video game and 3D art developer Virtuos has collected $150m from Baring Private Equity Asia.

Every day, Global University Venturing rounds up the smaller investments from across the university innovation ecosystem in its deal net.

Food-sharing platform Olio is eyeing foreign markets with series B funding raised from investors including Delivery Hero’s corporate venture capital unit.

The data analytics software producer, which counts Alphabet, Salesforce and Amazon among as backers, raised a $1.6bn series H at $38bn valuation. It is a case in point for the upward pressure in valuations of companies from this space which we have been seeing.

The Citi and Alphabet-backed real estate platform hauled in $100m in series D equity and $263m in debt.

Every day, Global University Venturing rounds up the smaller investments from across the university innovation ecosystem in its deal net.

Every day, Global University Venturing rounds up the smaller investments from across the university innovation ecosystem in its deal net.