Financial

The telecoms firm's $5m Smart Axiata Digital Innovation Fund has provided funding for Morakot Technologies, Aniwaa and Joonaak Delivery.

The blockchain technology producer's corporate venturing unit, Consensys Ventures, has invested in BlockFi, Unikrn, Pryze and an unnamed fourth startup.

The property sales marketplace has received $8.3m in a round backed by Commerzbank's venture capital unit.

The customer relationship management software producer launched four specialist funds with $250m of capital and scored big on the IPO exit front.

LexinFintech, the instalment buying platform operator backed by Bertelsmann, JD.com and Taikang, had initially targeted $500m in the offering.

Tencent added huge private equity deals to investments in the likes of Meituan-Dianping, Go-Jek and Flipkart before a run of huge IPOs late in the year.

The Google owner committed big money to Lyft and Airbnb as GV increased its late-stage deals, formed an AI fund called Gradient and exited from Snap and Cloudera in IPOs.

Insurer Allianz has invested $96.6m to become the largest strategic shareholder in mobile insurance and health platform Bima.

Digital insurance platform Lemonade has raised $120m at a $500m+ valuation, in a SoftBank-led round that included GV, Allianz and XL Innovate.