IT

Baidu has come on board as an investor in the marketing personalisation technology provider, which received earlier funding from New York Times and ProSieBenSat.1.

Alphabet subsidiary GV lost key figures Bill Maris and Rich Miner but Google Capital rebranded as CapitalG and ramped up the size of its investments.

IAC has returned to back internet service provider Starry's $30m series B round, pushing the company's total funding to date to $63m.

Despite the departure of company president Nikesh Akora in June, SoftBank continued to invest big in Asian consumer internet and is set to close its $100bn Vision Fund soon.

Superpix Micro Technology was one of four named China-based participants in the latest round to be raised by the fingerprint sensor developer.

New investor Shea Ventures led the round, which took IT incident management software developer VictorOps' overall funding to almost $34m.

Quanta Computer and HTC have helped provide $30m for Lumus, following an initial $15m from investors including Crystal-Optech.

Google-backed Symphony is targeting $200m in a round that will make it the latest company to carve out a place in the instant messaging unicorn club.

Car parts maker Valeo has acquired a 50% stake in CloudMade while Nasdaq-listed game producer Glu Mobile said it has acquired a controlling interest in Crowdstar.