Financial

Salesforce Ventures returned for a series D round that will help the fundraising software provider bolster hiring, product development and geographic expansion.

Alphabet’s CapitalG unit led a round that increased the banking technology developer's overall funding to more than $60m.

Marcau Partners will manage the independent venture capital fund.

Post Holdings led a $25m round for vegetarian meat brand Hungry Planet while Nium and Dataiku added to nine-figure funding totals.

Exor has become the latest corporate investor in the online insurance provider, which already counts CNP Assurances as an investor and which is now valued at $1.7bn.

The GMO and Mastercard-backed digital payment portal operator received its latest funding at a $3bn valuation and has now raised roughly $370m in total.

The medical crowdfunding portal operator has filed to float in New York in an offering that would enable Meituan Dianping, Tencent and Swiss Re to exit.

Q1 analysis: Venturing deals still concentrated in non-core areas, more exits reported in the first quarter, average deal size dropped slightly

The insurance group has joined 1337 Ventures for a pre-accelerator that will run twice a year, with the top two companies set to receive $36,500 each after a demo day.

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EV Growth-backed online education platform developer Ruangguru pulled in $55m while ProSieben and Rocket Internet helped open banking platform developer Tink take its total funding to $344m.