Financial

The automotive company also invested an undisclosed, but "significant" amount in the parking payment app developer.

Lending Club, an online market place for loans which is backed by Google Ventures, is seeking to raise $500m from its IPO.

The mobile payment technology company has already raised $340m in equity funding from investors including Visa, Citi and Starbucks.

The $8.1bn firm, China Minsheng Investment, is backed by 59 Chinese companies, none of which can own a stake greater than 2%.

Mobile device and location verification service Zumigo has raised $6m in series B round from Intel Capital and Aligned Partners.

Telus-backed Taulia has increased its year-on-year revenue 350% in the second quarter of 2014.

Wells Fargo has begun accepting applications for its newly launched financial services accelerator, which will invest between $50,000 and $500,000 in companies.

Incubator and venture firm Rocket Internet is set to reveal its plans for an initial public offering at the same time as one of its portfolio companies, Zalando.

The latest $60m raised by AppNexus, in a round that could eventually reach nine digits, is only the latest in what is proving to be a vibrant adtech market.

The Google-backed fundraising platform, which has raised more than $21m in the last 18 months, is raising the fund as it commits to co-invest $4m in 'B Corporations'.

The FXC-QCP VC Venture Fund, created in December 2013 to invest in online financial services, is seeking internet trading platforms in which to invest up to $50m.