Industrial

Bikini brand Frankies Bikinis received $18m from strategic investor Victoria's Secret while department store retailer Lojas Renner has formed a $31m investment vehicle.

The drone technology provider raised capital from a host of corporates, bringing its total funding to over $84m.

Industrial data software producer OnePredict closed a $25m GS Energy-backed series C round while several corporates helped drone infrastructure provider Skyports raise $23m.

The Global University Venturing deal net rounds up the smaller investments from across the university innovation ecosystem.

Accounting services provider Contabilizei pulled in $60m through a SoftBank-led round while luxury food brand KoRo raised $54.9m from investors including The Social Chain and HV Capital.

Q&A with Gonzalo Soriano, senior investment analyst, AC Ventures

The drone technology provider received support from Mitsui, Seika, Kyushu Electric and Tokyu Land to bring its total funding to over $84m.

The Global and China L4 Autonomous Driving and Start-ups Report, 2021, found that except for a few companies, such as Waymo and Uber, which performed worse than expected, level four (L4) autonomous driving firms in other fields gained momentum.

Hikma led a $15m extension to surgical robotics developer Activ Surgical's series B round, now sized at $60m, while data collaboration software provider Hex raised $52m from investors including Snowflake and Databricks.

Digital asset exchange Zipmex increased its corporate-backed series B round to over $51m while Digital Garage-backed 1plusX in a $150m acquisition.

Deutsche Telekom-backed DTCP was among the investors that pushed the cybersecurity management platform developer’s valuation to $2.6bn.