Services

Corporate-backed Idinvest Partners has led a funding round for Planday, the developer of a workforce management service aimed at shift-based companies.

Yahoo Japan subsidiary YJ Capital invested $14m in a round that also included Salesforce, Gree, Link and Motivation, Dentsu and Rakuten.

Discussion at Kyushu University, Japan, identifies that Fukuoka, under its youthful mayor Soichiro Takashima (he was elected in 2010 aged 36), is one region continuing to explore its options to be a growth centre.

All the VC deals (with named investors) on Friday had effectively corporate or government venture capital angles, including sole rounds by CVCs.

The Bertelsmann-backed online recruitment service has now raised more than $60m in total and will use the money for product development.

The Alphabet-backed background checking service has raised $40m in funding after having been reported in October 2015 to be seeking at least $30m.

The logistics company, which received funding from Alibaba in may last year, will list in China through a reverse merger with garment producer Dalian Dayang Trands.

WeWork has acquired digital visitor sign-in system developer Welkio less than six months after it was spun out of consulting agency Hathway with $400,000.

HNA Group has invested $185m in sports streaming platform Le Sports as part of a round that could end up topping $1bn, showing how online companies are helping China's media sector rapidly grow.