Financial

The private equity firm has supplied series E funding for the financial data provider, adding to earlier cash from investors including Renren and Ant Group.

GoEasy is set to exit the instalment finance service in an acquisition by one of its peers, Affirm, having provided $25.5m in funding last year.

Base and Marui Group were among the investors in the crowdfunding service's $28.8m series E round which, together with its series D, totalled $34.6m.

Cloud-based enterprise software producer Salesforce agreed to acquire Slack, the US-based publicly listed communication platform which previously counted telecoms firm SoftBank, internet conglomerate Alphabet and media group Comcast among its backers.

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

The Capitec Bank-backed venture firm has formed an early-stage initiative for fintech developers that combine monetisation with social impact.

Avant's digital banking software spinoff raised the money in a series C round led by Goldman Sachs Growth at a $600m pre-money valuation.

Stripe returned as the junior financial services provider, which is also backed by Sesame Workshop, increased its overall funding to more than $76m.

The headhunter’s startup initiative has announced a new batch of AI technology startups jointly with a call for proposals for its 16th programme.

The cryptocurrency exchange aggregator has closed its second round of the year, which included Gumi Cryptos, raising its total funding to $14.8m.

The challenger bank’s Vanderbilt University-backed series G has been boosted by new funding at the same $1.57bn valuation.