Services

Cloud human resources management platform SmartHR has secured $13.8m in a Nissen and Tokio Marine & Nichido-backed round.

Home builder Lennar supplied $100m in debt for the online property marketplace through a $135m round that also included Fifth Wall Ventures.

Construction services platform Katerra is now valued at more than $3bn, having secured new funding in a SoftBank Vision Fund-led round.

99.co has picked up Indonesia-based property listings portal UrbanIndo to expand in Southeast Asia, allowing Gree Ventures to exit.

The co-living space operator has been backed by Aviva and Moinian Group's Currency M as it gears up to open more co-living spaces in the US.

DPD Group was among the investors in the last-mile logsitics provider's latest round, which was reportedly sized at $87m.

Sector focus: Transport

The first month of the new year was marked by large and notable deals in the transport sector.

Celgene has agreed to acquire Impact Biomedicines for a multibillion dollar whose total size may reach $7bn, giving an exit to fellow pharmaceutical company Sanofi. This is a record-setting deal in the life-sciences exits involving corporate investors, where other transactions like IPOs seems to have been in decline.