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Airbnb has led the series A round closed by restaurant booking platform and strategic partner Resy, investing alongside participants including First Data.

The used car e-commerce platform, backed by Baidu, Tencent, Legend Holdings and Bertelsmann, is one of many well-funded players doing battle in China.

Unmanned vehicle-based delivery service Starship Technologies has raised $17.2m in a seed round led by Daimler, a strategic partner since September.

Realty portals PropTiger and Housing.com have merged, securing $55m from shareholders News Corp and SoftBank in the process.

Package delivery station operator Hive Box was formed by corporates GLP, SF Express, STO Express, ZTO Express and Yunda Express in 2015.

Property developer Sunac will take a 6.25% stake in the online real estate portal, which raised $927m in a Tencent and Baidu-backed round last year.

Care provider Ascension's corporate venturing unit invested in Reputation.com as part of a round that boosted its total funding to about $85m since 2006.

The restaurant booking platform has followed a $79m series C backed by Baidu and Dianping with a series C+ round that values it at more than $430m.

The GM Ventures, Edison Energy and Exelon-backed round will support an expansion in production of Proterra's electric buses, as it shows EVs are still a viable target for venture funding.