Services

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.

Maersk Growth and Hearst Ventures returned for a follow up investment in the logistics provider, increasing its total funding to over $100m.

Schneider Electric and Claltech were among the investors that took the automated customer service platform’s total funding to $110m.

SoftBank backed the human resources platform developer in what is being billed as the largest series A round in Latin American history.

Data collaboration software producer Duality Technologies, e-commerce logistics provider Pandion and cybersecurity software developer Adaptive Shield each raised $30m.

The Benesse and Prosus-backed online learning platform operator has filed to list on Nasdaq, about a year after closing a series F round at a $3.25bn valuation.

Canon, Kansai Electric Power, Mitsui Fudosan, NEC, NTT Docomo, So-net and T-Gaia were among the investors that scored exits as the CCTV system provider went public.