Services

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

GV joined a batch of Lola's existing investors, increasing the personalised travel booking service's overall funding to more than $80m.

Hearst Ventures was among the participants in a round that will fund the roll-out of Plum Guide's high-end holiday accommodation rental platform to 12 more cities.

The Citi Ventures-led round increased the total raised by the freelance business and financial planning service to $60m in the past five years.

Three weeks after reports suggested SoftBank Vision Fund had led a $395m series F round for e-commerce delivery service Delhivery, the size has been confirmed as $413m.

The Lianjia spinoff is currently raising $800m in a series D round that will be led by Tencent, and which looks likely to be its first external funding.

The two rivalling US-based ride hailing platforms Uber and Lyft, both counting many corporates among their backers, are preparing to float on public markets in the coming weeks, with the valuations of the two combined likely to stand well above $100bn

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

The real estate services platform secured the cash at a $3.8bn valuation, with Lennar, SoftBank Vision Fund, Access Technology Ventures and new investor GV all participating.

The JD.com-backed office equipment leasing service has increased its overall funding to nearly $60m in a $22.3m pre-series B round.

Ease, the HR enrolment and benefits software provider formerly known as EaseCentral, took its total funding to almost $28m in a Propel Venture Partners-backed series B round.