Powerful venture capital funding that went into, transportation platform, mobile app and airport car rental service this day

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Today, robust amounts of money have been poured in peer-to-peer transportation platform and a mobile app that connects delivery workers with short-distance delivery jobs. This energy translates the increasing vitality of the sharing economy across the world. 

DigitalEcono has captured for you:

[$1.0B / Series F] for
Lyft is a peer-to-peer transportation platform that connects passengers who need rides with drivers willing to provide rides using their own personal vehicles. General Motors provided $500M of today's Series F round.
[Investors include] : General Motors (Lead), Didi Kuaidi, Rakuten, Kingdom Holding Company and more. 

[$300M / Series D] for
Dada; a mobile app that connects delivery workers with short-distance delivery jobs. Launched in 2014, Dada's post-money valuation is now above $1B.
[Investors include]: DST Global (Lead), Sequoia Capital, Greenwoods Asset Management.

[$28M / Series C] for
SilverCar; an airport car rental service that leases out silver Audi A-4 vehicles. The company last raised $5.7M in debt financing in August, and has secured over $60M in total funding to date.
[Investors include]: Audi (Lead), Eduardo Saverin, Austin Ventures.