Financial

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

The investment and financial advice app developer raised the money at an $800m valuation, in a round led by $80m from LendingTree.

FIS Ventures is set to invest up to $150m in the next three years on behalf of its financial technology-focused parent company and has sealed its first deals.

Wix.com was among the investors in a $50m first close of the online lender's series B round, following $105m in series A funding closed in 2018.

The online insurance provider received $13.5m in a round led by Centauri Fund and backed by MassMutual Ventures, MDI Ventures and Central Capital Ventura.

The CreditEase-backed banking services provider is targeting a 2021 initial public offering following a round co-led by V Capital and Shefa Capital.

The consumer and business finance provider was reportedly valued at more than $1bn in an equity investment by video game publisher Nexon.

The potential investment would potentially be added to the $1bn series G round disclosed by the mobile financial services provider in November.

The digital life insurer has revealed it closed a series B round in February that included Sammons Financial to increase its total funding to more than $67m.

GV led a series B round for Digits that was disclosed as it publicly launched its business expenditure analysis software, four months after its series A.

Digital payment provider Stripe raised an extension to its series G round backed by Alphabet. The round is the latest in the payment tech space, which we have seen grow in the past decade.