Services

The Sumitomo and Seek-backed employee management software provider hiked its total funding to $274m in a round valuing it at $1.65bn.

Singtel Innov8 is set to exit cybersecurity technology developer Bitglass in an acquisition deal while Nio Capital contributed to marketing software developer Whale's $50m series B round.

SoftBank led a series D round which enabled the employee benefits software provider achieve unicorn status.

JLL came back to reinvest in the land development software developer through a $57.2m round which will fund international expansion.

Corporate-backed cloud networking software provider Pluribus pushed its total funding to at least $110m while IAG has exited Hyper Anna in an acquisition by Alteryx.

Salesforce Ventures came back for a round which increased the professional coaching service’s valuation from $1.7bn to $4.7bn in eight months.

Shernaz Daver, formerly an advisory partner at GV, has joined the venture firm as a senior operating partner and CMO to assist its expansion and growth projects.

Zoom was among the investors in a $20.5m round for BrightHire, the creator of a recruitment assistant tool for use on its platform.

Lithium mining process developer Lilac completed its series B round, which received backing from a several corporates. A sizeable round like this has been somewhat rare to see from the mining space, which has been so far somewhat neglected by corporates.

Citi and Silicon Valley Bank backed the recruitment platform for mothers in a series C round which brought the overall funding raised by the company to $116m.

Tel Aviv University spinout CB4 has been bought by Gap after having raised at least $22m in equity financing.