Adiari Vazquez, formerly investment manager at Caixa Geral de Depósitos’ Caixa Capital subsidiary, has joined Siemens-backed Next47 as an associate.

The calendar optimisation software provider raised $11m in funding from investors including Slack Fund, with Accel and Greylock co-leading the round.

Monthly analysis: May 2019

Twitter is expected to lead the Xiaomi-backed round with an investment of more than $50m, valuing the social networking platform at up to $650m.

The Naver, Simon and O'Reilly-backed location services provider has collected $150m from Raine Group to fund the purchase of user-location tracking app Placed from Snap.

USI-founded fake news detection technology developer Fabula AI has been scooped up by Twitter, which will employ the spinout's talent to remove spam and abuse from its platform.

Salesforce-backed recruitment software provider SmartRecruiters will use the proceeds from the series D round to expand into the Europe and Asia Pacific markets.

Rohit Dave, previously senior director and head of M&A at WeWork, has ascended to vice-president and will continue heading M&A activities alongside running its Creator Fund.

Sector analysis: Media

Digital media company Cheddar has agreed to a purchase by investor Altice USA that will also provide exits for Antenna Group, Dentsu, Liberty Global, Comcast, Amazon, AT&T, NYSE and Broadway Video.

Set up to identify fake news and social media bot accounts, Astroscreen has attracted UCL Technology Fund for its first funding round.

Bloomberg Beta has exited online text highlighting tool developer Highly in an acquisition of undisclosed size by Twitter.

New York Times has promoted its director of M&A and investments, Jacob Smilovitz, to executive director of corporate development and financial planning and analysis.

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

MSG Studios contributed to a round that led by Spark Capital that boosted the digital sports media platform's valuation to about $100m.

Cisco Investments took part in the customer relationship platform developer's series C round, which increased its total funding to approximately $74m.

Narbe Alexandrian, previously vice-president of business development at Canopy Rivers, has been promoted to president.

NM Future Ventures alumni Alexa von Tobel and Mark Batsiyan have launched Inspired Capital, a venture capital firm aiming to raise $200m for its debut fund.

The Tencent-backed data analytics software provider is now valued at $850m following an $80m series D round led by Sequoia Capital.

OSI is among the investors in drone developer Animal Dynamics’ latest round, which will help it develop products based on aerodynamics from the animal kingdom.