Sectors

STV and existing investor Raed Ventures supplied series A funding for the consumer finance provider to bring its overall funding to $32m.

Munich Re Ventures and M12 helped bring the digital insurance portal's lifetime funding to $91m having already backed its series B round earlier this year.

Power Corporation-allied Diagram Ventures helped Synctera pick up $12.4m in a round announced as the financial technology marketplace publicly launched.

Prior to founding venture firm PruVen in the summer, Ramneek Gupta had co-founded the venture investing efforts at financial services firm Citi. 

Venture firm Target Global has hired Christian Noske, previously head of corporate venturing partnership Alliance Ventures, as its latest partner.

YJ Capital, Sansei Capital, Kiraboshi Capital, Nanto CVC and Shinsei Corporate Investment were among the investors that helped the holiday booking app developer close a $12.5m round.

Deepcore, Mitsubishi UFJ Capital, Oita Venture Capital and YJ Capital were among the backers that injected $18.7m into the computer security service provider.

European Circular Bioeconomy Fund, which has hired Solvay Ventures alumnus Stéphane Roussel as a venture partner made a first close in October.

Every day, Global University Venturing rounds up the smaller investments from across the university innovation ecosystem in its deal net.

JIC Venture Growth Investments has injected $19.2m into the IoT technology developer, which is already backed by Dentsu, NEC, NGK, Mikasa Shoji, Mitsui, Salesforce, SoftBank and Toyoda Gosei.

JIC has provided $28.8m for the digital consulting company, whose corporate backers include Dentsu, Digital Garage, Japan Post, Pasona, San-In Chuo, Serverworks and Yahoo Japan.