Each Friday the Global Corporate Venturing Deal Net rounds up the week’s smaller deals and tracks the emerging companies accessing corporate funds.

Xpansiv, the US-based creator of a software platform that manages commodities production, closed a $10m series A round on Wednesday featuring ratings agency S&P Global, blockchain investment fund Reflective Ventures and investment firm Energy Innovation Capital as well as Avista Development and BP Ventures, respective subsidiaries of energy utility Avista and oil and gas supplier BP. It is also working with BP to convert some of the corporate’s gas production data into its Digital Feedstock format.

Alibaba Pictures, the film…

Robert Lavine

Robert Lavine is special features editor for Global Venturing.