Services

Hakuhodo DY subsidiary Spicebox unit and existing backer And Factory were among the investors that provided $10.7m for the social media marketing platform.

Meituan Dianping led a round for the agricultural distribution services provider that also featured existing backer Hidden Hill.

The Motley Fool-backed chef services marketplace is now valued at more than $120m and has raised in excess of $32m in funding.

Alphabet’s self-driving car developer Waymo raised its first external funding in a round backed by its parent company and two other corporates.

Each Friday the Global Corporate Venturing Deal Net rounds up the week’s smaller deals and tracks the emerging companies accessing corporate funds.

SoftBank reportedly invested $1bn in the online real estate brokerage as part of a $2.41bn round also featuring Tencent at a valuation of more than $14bn.

The workplace services platform raised the money in a JLL Technologies-led round just four months after its series B, and is using the cash to buy competitor Managed by Q.

The intelligent security system provider has raised money from Nationwide to boost the size of its series A round, which reached its first close in 2017.

Voyage Group and Akatsuki's AET Fund both exited co-living space operator StayAbode, which has been bought by NestAway in a cash-and-equity transaction.

The mobile tutoring platform developer, a graduate of Singapore Press Holdings' SPH Plug & Play Accelerator, plans to now expand geographically.

Arrowroot Capital has led a series D round for customer relationship management platform mParticle, whose existing backers include Alphabet subsidiary GV.