<article>In two separate investment deals in China, fresh food firm <a style="color: #000080;" href="http://www.dealstreetasia.com/?s=yiguo" target="_blank">Yiguo.com</a>, and online education startup <a style="color: #000080;" href="http://www.dealstreetasia.com/?s=SmartStudy" target="_blank">SmartStudy.com</a>  raised $200 million, and $30 million respectively.</article>

In two separate investment deals in China, fresh food firm <a style="color: #000080;" href="http://www.dealstreetasia.com/?s=yiguo" target="_blank">Yiguo.com</a>, and online education startup <a style="color: #000080;" href="http://www.dealstreetasia.com/?s=SmartStudy" target="_blank">SmartStudy.com</a>  raised $200 million, and $30 million respectively.
<h3 style="text-align: justify;">Suning completes $200m Series C+ round in Alibaba-backed Yiguo.Com</h3>
Suning Commerce Group, a China-based home appliance retailer, completed a $200 million series C+ round in Alibaba Backed Yiguo.com, a fresh produce e-commerce platform. Other investors also joined in the round.
Yunfeng Capital remains as one of the existing investors in Yiguo. Suning made the investment in connection with its multi-billion dollar collaboration deal with Alibaba last August, allowing the online marketplace titan to boost its offline capabilities.
One of the key strategies of Suning is to incorporate Yiguo products into its fresh produce unit Suxiansheng which it launched last year.
Shanghai-based Yiguo claimed to have completed the biggest financing in the domestic e-commerce business supported by Alibaba, and New York-based global investment firm KKR last March. The round reportedly surpassed the $220 million Series C funding received by COFCO-backed Womai.com in 2015.
Yiguo last August led an $18 million Series A round in Youpeiliangpin, an agricultural products supply chain and delivery platform based in Beijing.
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<h3 style="text-align: justify;">Baidu closes $30m B round in online education startup SmartStudy</h3>
China&#8217;s dominant search engine Baidu Inc has invested anew in online education startup SmartStudy.com, leading a $30 million B funding round participated by other investors.
SmartStudy is an online learning platform that helps students learn language exams including IELTS, and TOEFL, and also GMAT, GRE, and SAT. The company also offers offline tutoring.
The education startup aims to use the proceeds to improve on content and services meant for students and its education partners.
SmartStudy has, since 2014, reportedly trained five million students, and partnered about 1,000 learning organizations.
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In two separate investment deals in China, fresh food firm Yiguo.com, and online education startup SmartStudy.com  raised $200 million, and $30 million respectively.

China Digest: Suning leads $200m in Yiguo, Baidu closes $30m B round in SmartStudy

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